On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:45:04AM +0000, John Matthews wrote: > > > Basically, in my logs I keep getting: > > > > Feb 27 08:22:05 nijinsky kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device > > Feb 27 08:22:05 nijinsky kernel: 09:07: rw=2, want=251691012, > > limit=1952896 > > As others have posted in this thread, the question is more likely to > be why your disks are corrupting data than why the filesystem is doing > so. The vast majority of these cases turn out to be hardware > problems, either with bad memory or bad controllers or bad disks; or > sometimes, bad drivers triggering borderline or out-of-spec hardware. > > Are there any other kernel messages in the log which might give us a > clue as to what is happening here? What sort of disks are you using? No, these are the only log messages. The disks are two 20Gb IBM 305020 (5400rpm) and two 40Gb IBM 305040 (again 5400rpm). John.
