RELEASE UPDATE TO 1.0A - issue with installer corrupting slices

[Jud]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:13:52 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon  
<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    The 1.0-REL ISO's installer corrupts slices when installed on  
anything
    other then the last slice.  This will mess up people running  
multi-boot
    systems.
Is this possibly related to the RAID-0 (Promise 20276 onboard controller  
chip) breakage I experience each time I try to mount the array from  
DragonFly (which is installed on a third non-RAIDed drive)?  It occurs  
instantly upon issuing the mount command, whether I try to mount_ntfs the  
Win2000 slice or mount the (UFS1) FBSD-CURRENT slice.  The first 2-3 times  
the array breaks I can build it again in the RAID BIOS and recover, but  
eventually the corruption is too extensive and the only solution is to  
wipe the drives with IBM's DFT and restore from backups.

The breakage does not occur when I issue the mount_ntfs command from FBSD.

This has been occurring for a long while.  I did not experience the  
problem with the May 10th snapshot, but when I tried the next stable  
snapshot (May 22nd or thereabouts?) in early June, that's when it started  
happening.

Jud