Re: 2.0.31-pre9 runs into trouble with 'badblocks'

Truxton King Fulton II (trux@truxton.com)
24 Sep 1997 08:42:26 -0700


This problem has been resolved, attributable to bad L2 cache.

-Trux

Truxton Fulton <trux@truxton.com> writes:

> Under 2.0.31-pre9, running "badblocks" causes errors :
> Sep 22 00:50:09 sugar kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
>
> the offending command :
> badblocks -o hdc1.badblocks -v -w /dev/hdc1 5126593
>
> /dev/hcd1 is a 5Gb EIDE drive.
>
> My system:
> Linux 2.0.31-pre9
> with raid145 patch
> with swap-cache patch
> with ext2-bad-block-fix patch
>
> Pentium 200Mhz, 96 MB ram
> Motherboard with builtin AHA 2940 SCSI controller
>
> Does anyone know why this would happen? Thanks,
>
> -Trux