Re: bio too big device

Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12T04:50:47Z

That has to be a BIO bug or IDE setup bug.

256 sectors is legal and correct for 28-bit addressing.

Cheers,

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, scott thomason wrote:

> I frequently receive this message in my syslog, apparently
> whenever there are periods of significant write activity:
>
> bio too big device ide0(3,7) (256 > 255)
> bio too big device ide1(22,6) (256 > 255)
>
> It's worth noting that on this system I have had ongoing trouble
> with system stability during write activity as well, using a
> wide variety of 2.5.x kernels, even though at the time of this
> symptom things are apparently running fine.
>
> Filesystems are all ext3 on top soft raid0 devices. This happens
> to be 2.5.64, but it has been happening for at least the last
> 5-6 versions.
>
> Ideas? Any further debugging output I can provide?
> ---scott
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Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group