Re: Ext3 errors with 2.4.18

Oliver Feiler (kiza@gmx.net)
Tue, 14 May 2002 13:37:58 +0200


On Tuesday 14 May 2002 12:59, Neil Conway wrote:
> Your errors are just like the ones I experienced due to an IDE bug.

It's a slightly older P3B-F board with Intel IDE. It's not my system, but it
has been running fine as long as I can remember.

>
> Are you:
> a) using a hard-disk on the same cable as a CD/DVD

The IDE disk layout is:

IDE pri: HD + HD
IDE sec: CD + HD

The RAID is constructed from IDE primary master + secondary slave. (40 + 30 GB
disks)

>
> b) seeing any "hdX: status error: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete
> DataRequest}" errors in your log
>
> c) seeing (b) in close proximity to ATAPI module init messages like:
> "hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)"
>
> ?
>
> If yes to all/most of the above, you may be suffering from the same
> bug.

b) and c) are no, no.

> If not, your inodes in RAM are probably being trashed by a
> different bug :-))

Hm, wherever. ;) The problem manifested itself right after a reboot. Postfix
complained at boot about dirs in spool/postfix not owned by postfix and at
some point the fs was remounted ro. I dunno where to look, maybe it's indeed
MD RAID + ext3 like Andreas pointed out?

Bye,
Oliver

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