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Re: Corruption with Adaptec AHA-2940U2

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ledford)
Fri Dec 3 17:50:55 1999

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Date:   Fri, 03 Dec 1999 12:29:04 -0500
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Josha Foust wrote:
> 
> I am having some corruptions problems that seem to be in my SCSI system.  We
> are running Debian 2.1 with a pure 2.0.37 kernel, have an Adaptec AHA-2940U2
> with 5 9GB seagate drives attached.  We are running an Oracle Database and did
> not have any problems until we started running large data loads.  Then we
> started getting data corruptions in the database and file system. We also are
> getting errors in the syslog:
> kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> kernel: 08:41: rw=0, want=551158321, limit=8883913

The 5.1.21 version of the aic7xxx driver has a fix in it for some corruption
issues on a few specific Ultra2 Adaptec controller chips.  You should probably
upgrade to the latest 2.2 kernel in order to get that driver (2.2.14pre7 or
later I think).

-- 
  Doug Ledford   <dledford@redhat.com>
   Opinions expressed are my own, but
      they should be everybody's.

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