From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Booting problem after fresh install from 20080203 iso.
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:36:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <176198d7e39824a2405773542f58f724@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba0d3bc70802120526n43cc4e53x7598c7619c6a0459@mail.gmail.com>
> I believe my writing turns out a bit unclear. What I meant to say was
> that I actually did a "dd -if /dev/zero -f /dev/sdC1/raw" before I
> figured out that it should have been "dd -if /dev/zero -of
> /dev/sdC1/data" instead. Hence I was wondering if writing those zeroes
> to the raw file could be the source of my problem (in case those
> zeroes translate to a command I really shouldn't have given), because
> this is one of the things I did right before the problem appeared.
> Anyway, thanks for the reference, I'll take a look at scuzz(8).
p. 361 ata 6.1 notes that command 0 is NOP. ata nop does put the
drive into an error state so it could have screwed things up into you
reboot. it shouldn't, but you'd have to trace through the code to
prove it doesn't.
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-05 20:19 [9fans] " Sander van Dijk
2008-02-05 23:24 ` [9fans] " Sander van Dijk
2008-02-12 8:20 ` Sander van Dijk
2008-02-12 9:19 ` lucio
2008-02-12 20:14 ` Sander van Dijk
2008-02-13 4:29 ` lucio
2008-02-13 13:41 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-18 18:51 ` Sander van Dijk
2008-02-12 12:50 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-12 13:26 ` Sander van Dijk
2008-02-12 13:36 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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