Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:25:17 +0100 | Subject | Re: SCSI Kernel Problem - BAD |
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On 8 Mar 96 at 9:50, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
[...] > One thing to keep in mind that may be related - I have discovered > that with some disk drives, attempts to access beyond the end of the disk > will lock the thing up. It is possible that with the new page cache > we are inadvertently requesting a sector that is beyond the end, and > this is leading to a lockup. One way to test this is to simply look at the > messages logged to the console and see what sectors we are trying to > access when the thing locks up. > > I'm still hoping that someone will describe a scenario that lets me reproduce > this problem on my test system. [...] See my message from today: With an AHA2940 I tried to swap to a partition that was smaller than the signature suggested. The kernel does not check this in time, therefore you get a very dead machine (swapper executing).
Ulrich
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