Re: [slightly OT] IDE problems ? or just a dead disk ?

2001-06-17 Thread David Flynn
> hi guys, > Since its relativley quiet at the moment, please excuse me for > asking for some advice about the following problem. > i dont usually like following up my own sensless ramblings, but here is an interesting twist (probabally caused by my ill understanding of the issues involv

[slightly OT] IDE problems ? or just a dead disk ?

2001-06-17 Thread David Flynn
hi guys, Since its relativley quiet at the moment, please excuse me for asking for some advice about the following problem. for a while now ive had a disk that causes errors to occur during reads, however, ive finally got round to doing a # badblocks -c 32 -o mybadblocks -w -v -s /dev/h

Re: Newbie idiotic questions.

2001-06-17 Thread David Flynn
> Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Yep, the only thing left to resolve is whether Jeff had coffee or not. ;-) > > > > - if ((card->mpuout = kmalloc(sizeof(struct emu10k1_mpuout), GFP_KERNEL)) > > + if ((card->mpuout = kmalloc(sizeof(*card->mpuout), GFP_KERNEL)) > > Yeah, this is fine. The

Re: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-06 Thread David Flynn
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Kipp Cannon wrote: > > > If the kernel tells me the temperature is 1 (one) what should that mean? > > If it's spitting out 0.1* as people are claiming the > > ACPI stuff does then 1 means 10 kelvin or 1 dekakelvin, not a > > >

Oh Bother

2001-06-04 Thread David Flynn
Morning Guys, (or whatever time you call this ungodly hour) A couple of things to bring up: 1) I was just rebuilding gcc (for an i586 on my faster PII) everything was going fine and suddenly silence, all my ssh sessions have locked up, the serial console is dead, the system is not respond

EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): read_inode_bitmap: Cannot read inode bitmap - block_group = 129, inode_bitmap = 1056776 , kernel BUG at inode.c:886!

2001-05-29 Thread David Flynn
BlankTo all the kernel people, Ok, this is probabally old news and has been fixed, but the following happened in kernel 2.4.3 (ironically when i was deleting /usr/src/linux in order to extract the latest 2.4.5 :-) Here it is: However, it has a very slight sound of a more ser

KERNEL: assertion (tp->copied_seq == tp->rcv_nxt || (flags&MSG_PEEK|MSG_TRUNC))) failed at tcp.c(1279):tcp_recvmsg ...

2001-05-27 Thread David Flynn
To all the kernel people, To say i have a minor problem is a slight understatement, i have two problems. The first happens about 10 minutes into a fairly heavy load test, where i have several loadtesting clients running on an NT5 box, sending alot of queries a second to the GNU-linux box (over