Large Filesystems

[Jeroen Massar]

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:

> Hello all,
> 	I know this is not entirely related to the development of the aic7xxx
> chipset BUT I'm hoping that some of the other people on this list will have 
> either an answer or a pointer to more info.
> 
> I have gotten my aci7890 adapter working and installed these great Ultra2
> HDD's one 4.5Gb and the other 9.1Gb.  I built a filesystem and got it all 
> running only to find a message along the lines of:
It's fast huh? :)

> 
> VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 08:11
> ll_rw_block: device 08:11 only 1024-char blocks implemented (1026)
Hmmm are they quantums? they tend to be broken straight out of the box...
You should try a total and thorough diskcheck with surface scan of one
sort or another...

> 
> Then I get a message about things not being free BUT appearing on the freelist
> followed very shortly there after by a hang of a kernel panic.
This points out to be bad memory imho...
You could also try to run memtest a couple of times to be sure your mem is OK...
Also you could take some out and leave for example 64mb in place
and then slowly upgrade to the full 512mb... and see when it goes wrong...
the memtest will be faster though...

> 
> The Machine is a
> PII-MMX 300, 512Mb RAM, AIC7890 controller built into the m/board (P2B-DS)
> S3 VGA adapter and a FA310-TX NIC.
> 
> It is running Redhat 5.1 with k2.0.35
A friend of mine has the same board as you and me have... and he had
some "old" dimms on it... the comp would start but it would fail when
it used the memory... eg it would hang... so check if that all the 
dimms are the same...

PS: Upgrade to 2.0.36 (when out) or a 2.1.118 development kernel... these
    support our (I've got one too) P2B-DS boards much better... though the
    aic7890 support isn't in yet...
PS2: Did you install the fake cpu-card? I don't know if it runs without
     cause I've filled my board with a dual PII 266... which runs great
     with linux SMP...
PS3: Do you know of any sites or other info about the P2B-DS?

Greets,
  Jeroen Massar



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