Re: /dev/scd0: attempt to access beyond end of device
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:00:41 +0000 (GMT)
> it's now the 3rd time using Linux 2.2.13 kernel that I get messages like this
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 0b:00: rw=0, want=551696, limit=159340
> dev 0b:00 blksize=2048 blocknr=275847 sector=1103388 size=2048 count=1
>
> error messages when trying to access some files on correct CDs.
>
> I can `cure' this problem by removing and reloading the module `sr_mod'!
> this never happened with 2.2.12 and earlier.
> any idea what's wrong in 2.2.13 ?
2.2.14 pre has some fixes for ext2fs races Andrea found, it has some other
page cache related fixes and some scsi related locking fixes. It could be
any of these or neither. The fact that removing sr_mod fixes it is curious
but makes some sense since it will flush the page cache for that device.
Alan
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