RE: data from kernel.bkbits.net

From: Adam Radford
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 14:15:03 EST


This looks like glitchy power cables, drive cable or dying drive to me.

-Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 11:35 PM
To: Larry McVoy
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: data from kernel.bkbits.net


Larry McVoy wrote:
> I've been trying to get all the data off the drives on the machine which
> was broken into. I have a feeling that whoever this was was hiding stuff
> in the file system because both drives will not fsck clean nor will they
> completely read.
>
> I've managed to get most of the data off but not all. Given that I've put
> about 3 days into this I'm pretty much done. If someone else wants to
look
> at the drives I can make them available, let me know. But just reading
the
> main drive makes the kernel (Fedora 1) kill the tar process as below (it
> also managed to wack the system enough that it overwrote the NVRAM with
> garbage). It hasn't been a fun weekend.
>

Looks more like a 3Ware driver bug to me. Hard to say for sure, though.

-hpa

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