Re: attempt to access beyond end of device - bad values while

Doug Ledford (dledford@dialnet.net)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:49:40 -0500

Chuck Mead wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Bjoern Kriews wrote:
>
> > Hi...
> >
> > I am experiencing very strange behaviour from my disk subsystem.
> > root@ncc2:~ # dmesg
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 08:04: rw=0, want=78648406, limit=7759395
> >
> > This happens on different disks, apparently only the large ones.
> > The want values must be uninitialized data - they are far off from
> > the partition table sizes.
> >
> > Partition tables are ok, these disks did run for a long time on another
> > system w 2.1.120-pre1 (before 120 went bad).
>
> Mine's on a release kernel and it scares the crap out of me 'cause
> this is a production box...!
>
> System info:
>
> P2 233, 128M, 2.0.35, aic7xxxx (kernel), glibc-2.0.7-17,
> 1 x 2940U, 2 x IBM DDRS-34560W (4.3Gb) Rev: S92A UW's
>
> Here's some additional info:
>
> Sep 29 04:02:07 server kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 02:00):
> ext2_write_inode: u
> nable to read inode block - inode=2, block=5

EXT2-fs error on device 02:00. That's the floppy disk. I'm quite positive
the aic7xxx driver and your IBM disk has nothing to do with a floppy disk.
You might try getting a new floppy disk though, that would probably solve
the problem. Possibly a low level format of the floppy disk.

> Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560W Rev: S92A
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.0.19/3.2.
>
> /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
> /proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> /dev/sda5 /home ext2 rw 0 0
> /dev/sda6 /var ext2 rw 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 rw 0 0
>
> --
> Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
> http://www.moongroup.com/
> http://www.moongroup.com/unix/
>
> The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature
> is to build better mice.

-- 


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


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