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Re: scsidisk I/O error: sector number display
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Waltham)
Sat Jun 14 17:35:21 1997
From: Richard Waltham <dormouse@farsrobt.demon.co.uk>
To: lnz@dandelion.com (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 20:13:57 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199706141648.JAA19812@dandelion.com> from "Leonard N. Zubkoff" at Jun 14, 97 09:48:46 am
Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
>
> From: Richard Waltham <dormouse@farsrobt.demon.co.uk>
> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:27:01 +0100 (BST)
>
> Is this the intended display or is it intended to be the physical sector
> number?
>
> Mar 10 04:00:54 kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:02, sector 347470
>
> It's intended to be partition-relative, since the device that is reported is
> not the underlying disk drive. In this example, 08:02 == /dev/sda2, so it
> makes sense for it to be a relative sector. Partition-relative makes the most
> sense from the standpoint of someone who has to figure out which file system
> has been damaged by the error.
>
> Leonard
>
Fair enough... Now where do I find the start of the partition? Think I'll
stick with my patch.:)
Richard
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