[2818] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Problems making big fs on DPT RAID
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Robinson)
Mon Nov 17 17:32:55 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:15:46 GMT
From: John Robinson <john@intelligent.co.uk>
Reply-To: Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
To: Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Just upgraded a 'box with a DPT PM3334UW (SmartRAID IV) to 2.0.31. For
the first time ever after doing a reboot (i.e. use the 'reboot'
command) I was told by fsck when restarting that I was mounting a
filesystem with errors. (Well, no, OK, I've screwed things royally
before now but that was my fault.) It was a perfectly clean shutdown
as far as I could see, and it only happened on one of my
partitions. It actually had no errors on it (according to fsck but I
couldn't tell you if there are any incorrect sectors; it's my /usr
partition). I was rebooting to change my CMOS clock (OK so it's not
necessary but I believe it's more polite when putting it back).
What's going on? Is the card not getting round to flushing its
write-back cache? Is the driver not telling it to?
I am using the eata_dma driver. I've incorporated hfs and the teardrop
patch into my kernel. I have the eata_dma and 3c590 drivers in the
kernel not as modules. It's a Pentium 200 machine (yup, eagerly
seeking/awaiting a f00f patch for 2.0.x). Any more info, just ask.
John. _ _
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