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in this thread SubjectRe: Controller trashes FS (what's new)  On
Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:  > I think that a
bad "seek", i.e., a read or write beyond the end of the >
physical media, caused Linux to be trashed. Therefore,
subsequent writes > were to __OTHER__ devices, not even "known"
to Linux.  This is indeed a problem, and not limited to SCSI
devices. I'm using an IDE disk under DMA, and until a few
kernels ago, could try a large recursive copy from one MSDOS
partition to another, and sometimes cause a read beyond the end
of some device or another. The resulting mayhem kills Linux and
often required a power cycle to get the drive talking again.
Was probably a MSDOG bug    \ / ©2003-2011 Jasper Spaans