Re: I *need* to know what this is.

Jeremy Hansen (jeremy@xxedgexx.com)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:44:50 -0500

Kurt Hockenbury wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>
> > EXT2-fs error (device 08:01): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory
> > #284673: rec_len is too small for name_len - offset=1436, inode=284754,
> > rec_len=20, name_len=41
> >
> > We have burned three machines now and all three are getting the same
> > error. I need to have an idea what this is. I find it hard to
> > believe that we happen to get three bad drives in a row. All hardware
> > has been switched out at least three times.
> >
> > I need an *answer* on this.

Strange. This is a scsi drive, so I don't believe hdparm works with
scsi.
Is there something similar with scsi drives? I though DMA was an ide
thing,
but I'm probable wrong.

Thanks

-jeremy


> I was getting ext2-fs errors on one of our machines until I did the
> following in startup rc:
>
> /sbin/hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda # Turn off dma, see if that stops the filesystem
> # bit errors.
>
> Seems (knock wood) to have fixed it here.

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