Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:27:56 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Controller trashes FS (what's new) |
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Mike Kilburn wrote:
> > > It was my understanding that you must re-format your > drive when switching SCSI controllers. > I think you just might be right. This should not be, but different controllers have different scatter-gather logic. It turns out that logical sector X on one controller may be logical sector Y on another controller. It's not the low-level format that's different. A new file-system has to be built when installing a new controller.
We will see. I have a new Linux file-system and a new MS-DOS file-system now... The other file system that is a "VMS/Clone" will have to wait. I will have to rebuild it from zillions of floppies.
I think that a bad "seek", i.e., a read or write beyond the end of the physical media, caused Linux to be trashed. Therefore, subsequent writes were to __OTHER__ devices, not even "known" to Linux.
The driver maintainer really should look at the exception handling.
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