Well, the hdparm issue turns out to be real fun ;) stracing the hdparm yields an illegal instruction, causing the program to stop ( as seen in the previous post ).
Now, I donloaded to correct source to hdparm 3.6 and applied the 3.6-1 diff to it, in order to recreate the failure from source ( as opposed to binary-deb ). Now for the _real strange_ stuff. I unpack the source, apply the patch and run the resulting executable, right in the directory of the source. Of course, the hdparm fails with the illegal instruction, and leaves the binary corrupted. But, in addition to that, it corrupts *every other file* in that directory as well. It leaves the filesizes intact, but zaps everything to NULL. Now, I'm confused ;) Regards, T. Weyergraf -- Thomas Weyergraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Favorite IA64 Opcode-guess ( see arch/ia64/lib/memset.S ) "br.ret.spnt.few" - got back from getting beer, did not spend a lot.
