Re: kernel BUG at drivers/ide/ide.c:1384!

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> * Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
>
>> You should be able to reproduce it without the Nvidia code loaded if you
>> do I/O on the disk and run hdparm -w in a tight loop while doing so.
>>
>> You might want to do it on a disk you have a backup of
>
> I think I'll pass :)
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He might be able to do the same thing with `cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda`.
There are not a lot of file-system checks against bad data in file-systems.
The '-w' reset will guarantee bad data, which may propagate to the
file-system(s) in use, causing all kinds of problems. So, the OOPS under
these conditions is expected.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13.4 on an i686 machine (5589.71 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.

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