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Re: problems with scsi disk on AHA 2940
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Austin)
Sun Jan 4 18:03:07 1998
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 22:58:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: Steve Austin <steve@edensfld.demon.co.uk>
To: Michael Granzow <mg@medi.physik.uni-oldenburg.de>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980104221709.574B-100000@edensfld.demon.co.uk>
On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Steve Austin wrote:
>
> Sorry to snip your entire message, but it's a bit long to repeat. I don't
> know what everybody else feels, but it looks a lot like there are either
> bad sectors on your disk or maybe you've accidentally made a file system
> that extends beyond the partition end.
> As a start, I'd unload the partition to tape or another disk, then remake
> the file system with a -c option to scan and mark bad blocks, and see if
> that works around the problem. See what other people think first, though:
> this is a bit drastic and not guaranteed to help.
>
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> Steve Austin steve@edensfld.demon.co.uk
>
> Inter oves.
>
OOPS! Should have read and pondered the messages more thoroughly
before replying. It seems to be having trouble reading a block of the
inode table; those all get initialised by mkfs, so it can't be a de facto
partition size problem. Hopefully it is just a bad sector you can work
around.
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Steve Austin steve@edensfld.demon.co.uk
Inter oves.
