Marti Raudsepp wrote: > This is a reproducible demonstration of the problem initially reported in my > first e-mail, titled "PROBLEM: 'bio too big device' after moving to a USB > disk" (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/7/657) ... > 06. Observe "bio too big device dm-0 (256 > 240)" messages in dmesg > > [non]# dmesg |tail -n7 > [101403.106825] bio too big device dm-0 (256 > 240) > [101403.115228] bio too big device dm-0 (256 > 240) > [101403.115912] bio too big device dm-0 (256 > 240) > [101403.130529] bio too big device dm-0 (256 > 240) > [101403.131220] bio too big device dm-0 (256 > 240) > [101403.141577] bio too big device dm-0 (256 > 240) > [101403.142255] bio too big device dm-0 (256 > 240) if (unlikely(bio_sectors(bio) > q->max_hw_sectors)) { printk("bio too big device %s (%u > %u)\n", ... Please could you try if this patch helps ? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-merge-max_hw_sector.patch Milan -- mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html