From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:24:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:24:06 -0500 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au ([203.12.97.41]:44299 "EHLO vasquez.zip.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:23:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3BF5BB95.77B96DAF@zip.com.au> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 17:21:25 -0800 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.14-pre8 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Andre Hedrick , lkml Subject: Re: death by ATA In-Reply-To: <3BF41608.DF8C7068@zip.com.au>, <3BF41608.DF8C7068@zip.com.au> <20011116234558.D11826@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > > What does "end-request: buffer-list destroyed" mean? > > It means that the request was not sane anymore, or specifically that > clustered number of sectors was set to lower value than current number > of sectors (which isn't valid, of course). The buffer-list destroyed > comment tells you that this corruption is most likely due to the > buffer_head list on the request having been corrupted -- which in turn > probably means that someone seriously screwed this request. > > hda8: bad access: block=5296, count=-2 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:08 (hda), sector 5296 > hda8: bad access: block=5298, count=-4 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:08 (hda), sector 5298 > hda8: bad access: block=5300, count=-6 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:08 (hda), sector 5300 > > This errors would seem to backup that theory :-) 'k, thanks. > Is this an SMP board? Also, is Uniprocessor VIA C3, running 2.4.15-pre4. The controller is a VT8231. Running at UDMA100. > end_request: buffer-list destroyed > > the very first error message? Yes, it is. It is reproducible after around three few hours. Exactly the same. -