> Dear Port i386:
> 
> Could offer me any suggestions about a problem I'm experiencing with
> myhybrid running on a NetBSD/i386 1.5 machine, please?
> 
> The problem is that one of my files doesn't seem to be written properly to
> the iso file created by mkybrid.
> 
> 
> The file that's causing trouble is named store.log.gz.  Before putting it
> into the iso file I executed these commands on it
> 
>   % ls-l store.log.gz
>   -rw-r--r--  1 ray  wheel  343068607 May 23 19:14 store.log.gz
>   % gzip -vl store.log.gz
>   method  crc     date  time  compressed  uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name
>   defla 2b556560 May 23 19:14 343068607 2110984088  83.7% store.log
>   % gzip -vt store.log.gz
>   store.log.gz:            OK
> 
> I've found that executing
> 
>   gzip -vl store.log.gz
> 
> on the file in the virtual drive gives a different answer each time, for
> example:
> 
>   % gzip -vl /mnt/store.log.gz
>   method  crc     date  time  compressed  uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name
>   defla 2b556560 May 23 19:14 343068607 2110984088  83.7% store.log
>   % gzip -vl /mnt/store.log.gz
>   method  crc     date  time  compressed  uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name
>   defla 5accb628 May 23 19:14 343068607 1461744675  76.5% /mnt/store.log
>   % gzip -vl /mnt/store.log.gz
>   method  crc     date  time  compressed  uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name
>   defla e181ab41 May 23 19:14 343068607 -1412029498 - 0.1% /mnt/store.log
>   % gzip -vl /mnt/store.log.gz
>   method  crc     date  time  compressed  uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name
>   defla 22cd1895 May 23 19:14 343068607 1207296212  71.5% /mnt/store.log
> 
> and using gzip to test the file on the virtual drive produces an error:
> 


You don't happen to be running an athlon on an asus A7V motherboard, are you?
I finally seem to have stable operation with both -current and a bios update 
I got from a funny url that I can dig up if this is your problem.

The symptoms of varying results with gzip/gunzip were a feature of the ide
disk drive corruption I was seeing.


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