Re: IDE Driver Reports Erroneous Errors While Mounting NWFS 2.0 at boot

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:53:18 +0000 (GMT)


> automount commands in the fstab file, during FS module initialization,
> the following bogus error is reported:

I doubt its bogus

> access beyond end of device
> 03:00 rw=3 want=1715620 limit=1714018

Your fs asked for a block that is off the end.

> This error is claiming that sector 1715620 (0x1A2762) is beyond the end
> of the device, which in fact it is not. We got it to go away by forcing

The disk size is taken from the disk itself (or for partitions from the
partition). My guess is you really have a power of 2 error or something
in the code. Perhaps a 512 byte/ 1K conversion or something ?

Alan

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