> there is a bug in 2.0.33 with the gdth driver (drivers/scsi/gdth) with
> and without patch from the driver Manufacturer (The patch applies to
> 2.0.31 but works for 2.0.33 too)
> (Patch: GDTP2029.GZ or GDTP2031.GZ)
>
> When you try to format or fsck a ext2 partition > 1 Gigabyte then you
> get a kernel panic "free list corrupted"
>
> This seems to be a race condition because I tried this several times and
> the panic appeared at different times (but always within fsck.ext2 or
> format).
>
> Back to 2.0.29 (same driver, copied from 2.0.33 ) everything is fine!
It works here though on a clean 2.0.33 with no patches at all (2 chanels,
each with 3 Drives a 4G with GDT RAID-5):
$ df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda5 497636 86018 385918 18% /
/dev/sda7 995115 72829 870880 8% /var/log
/dev/sda8 497667 2779 469186 1% /tmp
/dev/sdb5 6202996 421475 5460225 7% /home
/dev/sda9 4307040 740733 3343407 18% /mnt/backup
Did you contact ICP?
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