Conner 1060W difficulties with Linux and ext2 fs

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2 total messages Started by Sean Christopher Farley Tue, 09 Apr 1996 22:38

#169

Author: Sean Christopher Farley
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 22:38

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This is problem I have been having for some time now:

	...
	EXT2-fs error (device 08:06): ext2_free_blocks:
	Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1819636581, count = 1
	...

I receive a multitude of these if I delete a large directory tree, but
never if I delete small directories or individual files.

As someone mentioned hardware possibilities, I have checked the following:
   RAM:	Passed BIOS and some ram checker for Linux
   CACHE:	Passed (I believe the program is Cache Check 2 or
			whatever the name is of a popular cache checker)
   DRIVE:	Supposedly Conner 1060's have trouble with inodes
		(Linux Hardware-HOWTO).  The patch from Conner failed,
		so they replaced my drive with a new one (refurbished but
		has the latest firmware on it (9WA 1.68)).
   CONTROLLER:	I don't know how to test the AHA-2940W card I have; I
		have access to no other SCSI drives.

I still suspect the driver under Linux since I have not heard of anyone
using this drive with Linux or FreeBSD (Basically the same AHA-2940
driver).

If anyone has had similar problems with this drive, or if they know what
gremlin has gotten into my computer please tell me how to pulverize that
gremlin.

Sean
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Re: Conner 1060W difficulties with Linux and ext2 fs

#170

Author: Sean Christopher Farley
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:00

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I have been told that the firmware (1.68) still requires the patch from
Conner to function with UNIX or NT systems.  Oh, well.

Thanks to all who replied.

Sean
-- 
Sean C. Farley
scf@cs.purdue.edu
PGP 2.6.2 key using finger or WWW
WWW Homepage is:  http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/farleysc

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