Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

[Pedro M. Rodrigues]

On 19 Jun 2001, at 5:00, Stefan Traby wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:20:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Folks, I believe I have a reproducible test case which corrupts
> > > data in 2.4.5.
> > 
> > 2.4.5 has an out of date 3ware driver that is short
> 
> > +   1.02.00.007 - Fix possible null pointer dereferences in
> > +   tw_ioctl().
> > +                 Remove check for invalid done function pointer
> > +                 from tw_scsi_queue().
> 
> hehe, this one keeps the 3dmd from running here at all.

  Saw that one here too. 

[...]

> (like DAC); I guess that many people would love to get rid
> of the - sorry - fucking closed sourced and totally broken 3dmd
> which makes an extremly nice product totally useless (you can't
> trust it; not only because it's closed source, it simply doesn't
> work (except that it wastes memory, that works fine. tested.))
> 
> -- 

   3dmd does have a lot of problems, but i thought it was just me. I 
only made it work once in a machine, and not very well. Last week 
i installed the latest version in another of my machines and after 
half an hour wrestling with it - trying to make it change passwords 
and ask for one, among other things - i gave up.

> 
>   ciao - 
>     Stefan
> 

Pedro