From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble) Subject: Re: HD corruption with new 0.96 kernel Date: 15 May 1992 08:58:51 GMT
oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) writes:
>arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble) writes:
>: Since I installed the new Kernel.. I have been getting some wierd
>: things happening with GCC 2.1..
>Tell me about it. :( I have just finished re-building my partition
>from scratch. Fsck gave me nearly 4000 lines of errors. :(
>At that point I decided to retrieve what I could and build a new file
>system. This occurred sometime after my switch to the 0.96 kernel. I had
>been doing a lot of compileing..
.rK! yeah.. well strangely enuf.. fsck diddn't come up with any errors!
But things were definately corrupted!
>I am running 486/33 with 4 megs, 8 megs swap, 200 meg IDE hard disk.
>I too , had to comment out the 'Unexpected hard disk interrupt'
>message. It was comeing up about 25 times a second during a compile....
Yes.. Same with me! And.. Even AT&T SYS V rel 3.2 had the SAME kind of errors (Unexoected HD interupt)!! So.. Im unsure if this is a software or hardware problem..
>: Also.. One other thing.. I heard mention that Linux can only handle
>: 32 Meg File systems...
>Nahh. Linux currently handles up to 65535 blocks..
>My partition is this size (all my linux stuff is on the one partition).
Oh.. thats a relief.. (Bit late tho.. I just repartitioned my HD.. Oh well.. i needed a clean out anyways :))
>: Hope someone can help me..
>: Linus.. keep up the good work..
>Well, I can't help. :( As an aside, does anyone have detailed info on
>programming the IDE hard disk controller ???. This 'Unexpected HD error'
>is bugging me. Damned if I know what is causeing it..
I mentioned the problem to Kylok (Through my dealer) and I havent recieved the remply as yet.. I think i might do some more enquiries.. Maby try and even get through to Kylok themselves direct for an answer..
Anthony Rumble