Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SCSI Kernel Problem - BAD | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:26:46 -0500 | From | garth zenie <> |
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On Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:37:51 EST Steven S. Dick wrote:
> Please let me know if there's anything additional I can try > besides just tickling this bug. (I can try to trigger it in > previous kernels as well, if you want.)
Ditto. I am running on a P166, Buslogic BT948 SCSI controller, and Conner CFP2107S Drive.
After my filesystem was completely destroyed the first time, I feared a problem with the drive or the controller. I have since turned off tagged queueing just to insure that I am not demanding to much from my SCSI chain (not that i know what tagged queueing is or anything :).
I have experienced the following filesystem corruption symptoms:
a) when untarring a large source tree, sometimes one of the source files will get munged. it appears that either a piece of the file is missing or something has been inserted in the file. this seems to happen without any error messages logged. unpacking the source tree again fixes the problem.
b) sometimes my system will completely lock while ext2-fs error messages scroll by (ext2_find_entry, some other ones maybe). this always happens with heavy i/o is taking place (unapcking the kernel sources while compiling xlock...) when the system finally recovers from the temporary lock, potentially massive corruption has happened to the filesystem. two days ago i ended up with tons of files which had turned into directories (/bin/sh turned into a directory whose contents were /usr/src!!!).
i am getting fed up of have to reinstall everything :). anything i can do to help get this problem solved will be my pleasure.
thanks, -- garth
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