From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA91853 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id KAA32085 for linux-list; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:19 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA48210 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:17 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (andy@derfel99.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from mail4.svr.pol.co.uk (mail4.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.211]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id KAA00593 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:16 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (andy@derfel99.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from modem-77.americium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.47.77] helo=snafu) by mail4.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10xZWO-0001hQ-00; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:12:13 +0100 Message-ID: <001901bebf2d$e1951530$0a02030a@snafu> From: "Andrew Linfoot" To: "Ulf Carlsson" Cc: References: <19990622032859.B6955@thepuffingroup.com> <19990622152145.A1059@uni-koblenz.de> <19990623014923.A8953@thepuffingroup.com> <19990625002853.D17220@uni-koblenz.de> <002701bebf17$cd9e4fd0$0a02030a@snafu> <19990625185906.A9050@thepuffingroup.com> Subject: Re: File corruption Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:11:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On a couple of occasions i have lost entire directories but this was some time ago ----- Original Message ----- From: Ulf Carlsson To: Andrew Linfoot Cc: Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 5:59 PM Subject: Re: File corruption > On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 03:34:15PM +0100, Andrew Linfoot wrote: > > I have been running 2.2.1 on my indy for about 3 weeks now and have > > encountered problems like this, in fact i am surprised at how stable the box > > is, i have been doing some quite large builds of qt, kde and the like too. If > > this is reproducible then i would be prepared to experiment on one of my > > boxes. I have had a couple of instances where i lost complete directories, but this was during the first few days of running Linux on my box, i simply put it down to operator error! > > It doesn't crash, only file corruption.. > > > The only gripe i have is that the scsi driver breaks when i attach external > > devices, any ideas? > > I have file corruption without any external devices. It looks like the problems > appear when more than one SCSI devices are present. You only have one internal > SCSI drive, right? 2 drives - see below If i attempt to attach an external device the system just hangs during scsi initialisation. I think this is fixed in later kernels but i don't have cvs up yet so i can't move past 2.2.1. > > Do you mind telling us more exactly what type of file corruption you suffer > from? It would also help if you could attach an output from hinv, or just tell > us what hardware you have. CPU: MIPS-R4400 FPU ICACHE DCACHE SCACHE Loading R4000 MMU routines. CPU revision is: 00000450 Primary instruction cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes) Primary data cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes) Secondary cache sized at 1024K linesize 128 8-bit graphics 128MB RAM sda 540MB with base IRIX sdb 2GB with Linux.and swap an interesting point here is that /proc/cpuinfo tells me i only have an r4000! Andy > > Regards, > Ulf > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <001901bebf2d$e1951530$0a02030a@snafu> From: "Andrew Linfoot" References: <19990622032859.B6955@thepuffingroup.com> <19990622152145.A1059@uni-koblenz.de> <19990623014923.A8953@thepuffingroup.com> <19990625002853.D17220@uni-koblenz.de> <002701bebf17$cd9e4fd0$0a02030a@snafu> <19990625185906.A9050@thepuffingroup.com> Subject: Re: File corruption Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:11:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: Ulf Carlsson Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19990625171152.8svB7aqz_xMrhICu3mh8oy5O9YN99uiqOOrGoLjo6r8@z> On a couple of occasions i have lost entire directories but this was some time ago ----- Original Message ----- From: Ulf Carlsson To: Andrew Linfoot Cc: Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 5:59 PM Subject: Re: File corruption > On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 03:34:15PM +0100, Andrew Linfoot wrote: > > I have been running 2.2.1 on my indy for about 3 weeks now and have > > encountered problems like this, in fact i am surprised at how stable the box > > is, i have been doing some quite large builds of qt, kde and the like too. If > > this is reproducible then i would be prepared to experiment on one of my > > boxes. I have had a couple of instances where i lost complete directories, but this was during the first few days of running Linux on my box, i simply put it down to operator error! > > It doesn't crash, only file corruption.. > > > The only gripe i have is that the scsi driver breaks when i attach external > > devices, any ideas? > > I have file corruption without any external devices. It looks like the problems > appear when more than one SCSI devices are present. You only have one internal > SCSI drive, right? 2 drives - see below If i attempt to attach an external device the system just hangs during scsi initialisation. I think this is fixed in later kernels but i don't have cvs up yet so i can't move past 2.2.1. > > Do you mind telling us more exactly what type of file corruption you suffer > from? It would also help if you could attach an output from hinv, or just tell > us what hardware you have. CPU: MIPS-R4400 FPU ICACHE DCACHE SCACHE Loading R4000 MMU routines. CPU revision is: 00000450 Primary instruction cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes) Primary data cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes) Secondary cache sized at 1024K linesize 128 8-bit graphics 128MB RAM sda 540MB with base IRIX sdb 2GB with Linux.and swap an interesting point here is that /proc/cpuinfo tells me i only have an r4000! Andy > > Regards, > Ulf >