[1204] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Linux 2.0.27 kernel crashing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Foersterling)
Wed Jan 1 20:31:04 1997
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 14:23:22 +0100
From: dirk@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Dirk Foersterling)
To: roba@ntscom.com (Rob Allen), linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu (Linux SCSI)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961231154853.007377ec@ntscom.com>; from Rob Allen on Dec 31, 1996 15:48:53 -0600
On Dec 31 1996, Rob Allen wrote:
> I have been experiencing problems with my usenet news server lately and I
[snip]
> Dec 28 17:59:06 news kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:11): ext2_add_entry:
> bad entry in directory #434182: rec_len % != 0 - offset=0,
> inode=1752457552, rec_len=8250, name_len=25966
> Dec 28 17:59:55 news kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
> virtual address f621223c
[snip]
I had similar problems, but I don't have SCSI disks (scanner only).
I my case, the RAM timing was set too tight. I use 70ns chips with my
486 (160MHz) and everything worked fine with 0 Waitstate (DRAM timing
and PCI-to-Memory burst) for some hours. Then, ext2fs went crazy,
putting out similar messages like the above.
I set DRAM timing to 2 Waitstate (1 WS didn't do) and the error never
occured again.
-dirk
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