Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:53:17 +0000 (GMT) | From | Chris Evans <> | Subject | Re: Controller trashes FS (what's new) |
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 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.
This is indeed a problem, and not limited to SCSI devices. I'm using an IDE disk under DMA, and until a few kernels ago, could try a large recursive copy from one MSDOS partition to another, and sometimes cause a read beyond the end of some device or another. The resulting mayhem kills Linux and often required a power cycle to get the drive talking again.
Was probably a MSDOG bug
Chris.
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