Re: filesystem corruption with 1TB filesystem, 4.9-STABLE, twe

2004-04-30 Thread Matthew Reimer
Is your card plugged into a riser card? We had similar problems (random corruption) with a 7506-8 card. The workaround was to set the speed for that PCI slot to 33MHz (rather than Auto or 66MHz). I think this tech note describes our problem: http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=10848 (Read

EIDE Castlewood orb drive error

2002-03-15 Thread Matthew Reimer
I get this error the first time after booting that I try to access my EIDE Castlewood drive: ad2: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ad2 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0)ad2: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode It works fine, but of course it's slower than it could be. It's done this since I first got the drive. I'

Re: syncache patch

2002-02-20 Thread Matthew Reimer
Mike Grissom wrote: > Where can I find the patch for the syncache bug that causes the systems > to reboot for no reason? I see alot of posts about the patch, but no > url for it. And I also see that it was supposed to be submitted to cvs > a couple days ago. Thanks! It just went in: jlemon

Softupdates panic "ffs_blkfree: bad size" on -stable

2001-03-05 Thread Matthew Reimer
Last night one of our servers panicked with the message "ffs_blkfree: bad size." The kernel is from early March 4 (PST). Below is a backtrace and the versions of the files in /sys/ufs/ffs. I have a kernel dump for anyone interested in looking into this problem; email me and I'll get it to you. H