From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) Subject: Re: [Problem] Lx0-99p7 trashes my FS (again) ! Date: 17 Mar 1993 00:51:33 GMT
In article <1o5gs2$8ak@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> cally@cs.tu-berlin.de (Carsten Fischer) writes:
>
>I posted sth. similar some time ago, now once more again ... :
>
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>Conf.:
>
>486/33 16MB
>SCSI AHA1542B 240+520
>WD16 / 8390 (@super.*)
>(Linux-0.99p7 + 8390.6)
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>
>0-99p7 is totaly unusable for me -- 'efsck' reports *lots of* inconsistencies
>immediately after a write access to my FS ...
> (like 'cp -rva /usr/bin /tmp')
>
>I had this problem some time ago, but it disappeared when I was using Donald's
>8390_WD_Driver (up to 99p6) ... But NOW it does *not* !!!
I'm not sure your problem is the same as mine, but I think I remember so.
If so, I think it's probably some kind of wild pointer problem at a
very high level in the filesystem, outside the filesystem, or in the
disk driver. My configuration: