data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?)

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu May 8 03:45:52 PDT 2003


In message <20030508122258.M78057 at daneel.foundation.hs>, Heiko Schaefer writes:

>sorry to be pushy, but have you found anything - or been able to reproduce
>anything since then ? i'm still confused how exactly you determined that
>some data on your disk was corrupt.

No, I'm not any further.

What I saw was the stdout/stderr from a "make universe" that suddenly
had a bunch of zero bytes in the middle.

The thing we need, more than anything else, is a way to reproduce
this on demand.

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