Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 04:31:01AM +0100, Christian Loth wrote:
> > Was working (and mudding), and running X, a mudclient, Netscape
> > Communicator, some shells, when suddenly heavy disk activity started.
> > And then there was a hard lock. The following was in my syslog:
>
> How hard ? Did SysRq work ? (If you compiled that in)
Very hard, nothing worked anymore.
>
> > Nov 29 04:03:57 loth kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> > Nov 29 04:03:57 loth kernel: 03:01: rw=0, want=350951179, limit=2096451
> > Nov 29 04:03:57 loth kernel: Directory sread (sector 0x29d62e16) failed
>
> This looks like a problem with the FAT code ... do you use fat partitions
> (umsdos, fat16, vfat) on /dev/hda1 ? If so, when did you last scandisk
> that partition ?
Uhm...I scandisk'ed it some weeks ago I think, but I'm not using windows
too often. However I once used Partition Magic 3 to decrease my VFat
partition and to make two of it and later on make one big partition out
of those two again, reverting it.
>
> > Nov 29 04:03:57 loth kernel: 03:01: rw=0, want=1855167780, limit=2096451
> > Nov 29 04:03:57 loth kernel: Directory sread (sector 0xdd273a47) failed
> > Nov 29 04:03:57 loth kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
>
> Well, in the moment, I do not see why we change the sector, but I am not
> familiar at all with the fat code ...
>
> > Looks scary to me...my Hardware:
> > Dual P200 mmx on a Tyan Tomcat IV, Soundblaster AWE 32, Matrox Mil I 2mb,
> > hda: IBM-DHEA-36481, 6197MB w/472kB Cache, CHS=790/255/63, (U)DMA
> > hdc: Conner Peripherals 240MB - CP30254, 240MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=895/10/55
> > Teles 16.0 ISDN card, and a ne 2k clone (but unused)
>
> What is your fstab ? Do you use devfs ?
My fstab:
<SNIP>
/dev/hda1 /win vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
<SNAP>
No, I don't use devfs. Oh, of course, having dual cpus, I'm having a
SMP kernel.
- Chris
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