Access past end of device

Access past end of device

[Jeremy Salch]

I'm using a dell powerall web 120 with scsi drives installed
Using redhat 7.2 with the 2.4.18-19.7.x kernel installed 



And when using badblocks on the swap partition I get

 

 

 

Attempt to access beyond end of device

08:06: rw=0, want=1044196, limit=1044193

1044192

done

Pass completed, 1 bad blocks found.

 

 

And fdisk reports there to be 1044193+ blocks in the partition ?

 

 

I wish to be personally CC'ed any answer / comments..  

 

Thanks a million

 

Re: Access past end of device

[Stewart Smith]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:13:02AM -0500, Jeremy Salch wrote:
> I'm using a dell powerall web 120 with scsi drives installed
> Using redhat 7.2 with the 2.4.18-19.7.x kernel installed 
> 
> Attempt to access beyond end of device
> 08:06: rw=0, want=1044196, limit=1044193
> 1044192
> Pass completed, 1 bad blocks found.
> And fdisk reports there to be 1044193+ blocks in the partition ?

Sounds like the partition map is a bit incorrect.

Try running badblocks on the drive itself (/dev/hda, not hda1).
If the problem disappears then it's with the partition map (i'd guess).

- stew

RE: Access past end of device

[Jeremy Salch]

Ok I'll give that a try.  One other question.  If the partitiontable was bad
wouldn't fdisk report a incorrect size for the partitions that are having
the problems ?

Also the system freezes when under a heavy load without giving any error
output. What it does do is report something like 600000% idle time in top  


-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart Smith [mailto:stewart@linux.org.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:02 PM
To: Jeremy Salch
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Access past end of device


On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:13:02AM -0500, Jeremy Salch wrote:
> I'm using a dell powerall web 120 with scsi drives installed Using 
> redhat 7.2 with the 2.4.18-19.7.x kernel installed
> 
> Attempt to access beyond end of device
> 08:06: rw=0, want=1044196, limit=1044193
> 1044192
> Pass completed, 1 bad blocks found.
> And fdisk reports there to be 1044193+ blocks in the partition ?

Sounds like the partition map is a bit incorrect.

Try running badblocks on the drive itself (/dev/hda, not hda1). If the
problem disappears then it's with the partition map (i'd guess).

- stew

RE: Access past end of device

[Jeremy Salch]

I did a fdisk on the device /dev/sda  and it found no bad blocks.  

I was given the suggestion from one person it sounds like a kernel bug since
redhat patches their kernels soo much.


-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart Smith [mailto:stewart@linux.org.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:02 PM
To: Jeremy Salch
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Access past end of device


On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:13:02AM -0500, Jeremy Salch wrote:
> I'm using a dell powerall web 120 with scsi drives installed Using 
> redhat 7.2 with the 2.4.18-19.7.x kernel installed
> 
> Attempt to access beyond end of device
> 08:06: rw=0, want=1044196, limit=1044193
> 1044192
> Pass completed, 1 bad blocks found.
> And fdisk reports there to be 1044193+ blocks in the partition ?

Sounds like the partition map is a bit incorrect.

Try running badblocks on the drive itself (/dev/hda, not hda1). If the
problem disappears then it's with the partition map (i'd guess).

- stew

Re: Access past end of device

[Stewart Smith]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:23:50PM -0500, Jeremy Salch wrote:
> I did a fdisk on the device /dev/sda  and it found no bad blocks.  

That's a good thing - be greatful :)

> I was given the suggestion from one person it sounds like a kernel bug since
> redhat patches their kernels soo much.

Could be, try a kernel.org kernel and see if the problem persists. If it goes away, file a bug report with redhat. I would think fdisk would come up with an error on a corrupt partition map, so if it doesn't then ur probably looking at some oddity... try the kernel.org kernel :)

- stew