From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) Subject: Re: scsi/inode bit Date: 29 Sep 1992 04:17:11 GMT
In <BvBD20.5qA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mopar@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mopar Mike) writes:
>ARG!!! Sometimes for no reason linux will return this error:
> inode bit already free
> or inode bit cleared
>and it will repeat this five or six times then wipe out the partition
>on the scsi drive. It's getting real frustrating because everytime I
>get something installed linux wipes out that partition for me :-)
...
>This thing only happens to my scsi drives. I've got two partitions on
>each drive and the second st225 drive is a linux only drive from which
>I mount the scsi partitions onto.
I've been bitten by this thrice in the last three days. It happens to
me when I'm moving large amounts of data around; it happened twice
when I was tarring one parition to another (to do a backup) and tonight
while I was rearranging my paritions (cp -dprR * /mnt)...
I have two SCSI disks off an Adaptec 1542, so I guess it's not the
low-level drivers... I sure wish version 2 of the SCSI drivers would
get here soon as I'm getting fed up with the constant partition-
trashing. My system:
Insight 486/33 EISA bus
Adaptec 1542B
Quantum LPS105 & Fujitsu M2426F (I think)
8MB RAM
-Chris
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