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

[Chris G. <dl...@ki...>]

Hi Dominic,
I agree about the block sizes. What I forgot to mention is that there are 7 
IDE drives in total in the machine including the 400Gb but its only the 
400Gb that's giving the error.  I've just noticed that Webmin is reporting 
me to have 3.16Gb of memory which is a bit odd. I'll take the server offline 
tonight and run memtest as you suggested and see if it throws up any errors.
Thanks again, Chris.
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From: "Dominic Raferd" <dl...@ed...>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 4:10 PM
To: <dev...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] attempt to access beyond end of device

> 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.
>
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