Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:26:58 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Controller trashes FS (what's new) |
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So therefore, I spent a lot of money and bought a Bus Logic BT-958 > > SCSI Controller. This had been recommended because, amongst other things > > "It had the best written Linux driver".... > > It does. Its rock solid. Its running news servers all over the world. I'd > suggest you check your cabling, your setup, and also with buslogic if the > card and your motherboard get one. > > Alan > Thanks Alan. The problem seems to be that I HAD to remake all the file- systems that used this controller. This controller has a different physical-to-logical translation of "sectors" than the Adaptec. Once somebody wrote past some logical offset, the Linux file-system got trashed. Once some reads of the trashed file-system occured, something very, very BAD happened in the kernel. Subsequent writes went to other SCSI devices. I can see part of a page partition written to my last SCSI drive which was idle...
I have 2 2GB drives, plus tape, CDROM plus an "old" 1 GB drive. Basically everything except the CDROM (perhaps even that) got written to...
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