[nycbug-talk] Reproducible data corruption on 6.1-Stable [Long but please read]

[Jonathan Stewart]

George Georgalis wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:20:47AM -0400, Jonathan Stewart wrote:
>> Did you mean doing something like
>> sudo dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/tmp/temp skip=268435455 count=1
>> sudo dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/tmp/temp skip=268435456 count=1
>> sudo dd if=/dev/ad4 of=/tmp/temp2 skip=268435456 count=1
>>
>> to make sure I can read the sectors and the reads come back the same
>> each time?  If so then yes to both.
> 
> 
> not sure about the base change
> or your device names, but
>  if=/dev/rwd0d skip=0xffffffe count=3
> is what I had in mind, is ad4 a raw device?

No errors, ad4 and ad6 are the 2 base drives used for the RAID stripe.
They are on a highpoint rocketraid controller card.

I didn't know dd would take hex, learn something new everyday :)

Thanks,
Jonathan