From: Rafal Kustra (rafal@utstat.uucp)
Date: 10/02/92


From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
Subject: Re: Disk corruption problem (Was: Wierd behavior with 0.98).
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:03:31 GMT

In article <3797@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
> Yes, I think I have an idea about what is going on. A week ago, 3
>people reported an inode corruption problem with scsi disks, and the one thing
>that they all had in common was that they each had more than one scsi disk
>drive. From the looks of it, I can now say that we have a fourth case. This
>problem has been observed both with an Adaptec 1542 and a ST02.
>
> Currently I think that there is a bug of some kind which has to do with
>more than one scsi disk drive on the system at one time. What I do not know is
>if a multi-scsi-disk system is always unstable or not. Basically I would like
>to hear from anyone who is using more than one scsi disk without problems.
>
> Also, I would be interested in knowing if there are any users with
>two IDE drives, and I would like to know if that configuration is stable

I'm using 2 105 Mb Kalok drives. It is stable as a rock
(.97pl4, X, did compilations of kernel, ghost stuff, a
lots more.) I had a internal compiler error once when
compiling gdb, but reinstalation of gcc fixed it.
I remember having similar problem as above, but it turned
out to be my stupidity: I was using -f option to make
thinking it was the force option, and was giving an
argument to it, which turned out to be some binary file.
Of course, make tried to read that file and I found
myself rebooting, only to find Megs gone.
Fsck would report XX zone used,nofile uses it, thousand
times.
I have no problems now.

                                        Rafal

>-Eric
>--
>Eric Youngdale
>eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil

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