From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:40:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:40:35 -0500 Received: from Mail.ubishops.ca ([192.197.190.5]:28681 "EHLO Mail.ubishops.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:40:20 -0500 Message-ID: <3AA82616.F467A9B9@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 19:38:46 -0500 From: Thomas Hood X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-pre1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com Subject: Re: 2.2.18 corruption: IDE + PCMCIA ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have seen the same sort of problem in the past. My conclusion was that there was a problem with dynamic registering and unregistering of ide interfaces. Thomas Hood jdthood_AT_yahoo.co.uk > I've experienced some disk corruption on my laptop. > > Scenario: > I'm cross-compiling tons of sources and I felt the need > to insert a CompactFlash card (via PCMCIA) in my laptop. > So I did, no problem: > mounted, touched a file, umounted, cardctl-ejected. > > Pretty soon my compilation stops: > bash: /usr/bin/sort: cannot execute binary file > > Okey. The date on /usr/bin/sort is unchanged. Must be root to write. > [...]