Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] attempt to access beyond end of device

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

Hi Chris

This is all new to me, but it does seem that the limit figure reported 
is about right for a 400GB drive if the blocks are 512 bytes each, 
whereas the 'want' figure is excessively high. So it looks as if 
something (probably some metadata on the disk, like directory entry or 
control block) is pointing to a completely invalid location. Could be 
caused by damaged meta-information (filesystem structure data) on the 
disk, or possibly bad RAM chips. At boot time DL offers a memory test 
option, could you run this overnight?

Dominic

On 16/08/2010 14:55, Chris Grove wrote:
> Hi All. I'm hoping someone might be able to point me in the right 
> direction here. I've got a problem on my DL server where by I'll be 
> playing a file from this drive and it'll just stop. When I check the 
> dmesg on the DL box its got about 200 entries saying the following:
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> hdc1: rw=0, want=10362186664, limit=781417602
> Now the drive is a fairly new 400Gb drive and according to the SMART 
> info that Webmin has displayed the drive is ok. I've also run 
> fsck.ext3 on the partition and got a few inode errors, which it 
> fixed.  But I've just copied data to the drive again and got the error 
> Sad smile emoticon Can anyone please shed some light on this please.
> Oh, I'm using a fairly old build of 1.4 if that makes any difference.
> Thanks in advance, Chris.