The basic test of the new controller and disk (and the one from which the
reported errors came---excerpt given below) is:
i486, k. 2.0.28, SCSI AHA-29xx compiled in (NOT module)
32MB RAM
/dev/hda (IDE, 540 MB) contains:
- /dev/hda1 (/)
- /dev/hda2 (swap)
- /dev/hda3 (/tmp)
- /dev/hda4 (extended)
- /dev/hda5 (/var)
- /dev/hda6 (/dos: actually an ext2 filesystem containing DOS prgms)
/dev/hdc (IDE, 2 GB) contains:
- /dev/hdc1 (/usr, all of the disk size)
This machine exports /usr and /dos (read-only) and mounts /home,
/var/spool/mail and /var/lib/texmf/fonts (all read-write) over NFS.
The planned switch was from a 2GB IDE drive to a 2GB Seagate Hawk 20 MB/s
SCSI drive---thus there was no new controller here and no SCSI disk
previously used on a different controller was used in this case. It was a
simple move-this-fs-on-a-different-partition task.
The HD appears to be terminated from a shorted jumper on the case.
Internal termination on the controller part was tried as both automatic
and manual on the used channel.
The HD was:
-low level formatted and verified
-Partitioned (only one 2 GB partition): fdisk would find an incorrect
partition table but suggested that w would correct this situation as it
actually did.
(Reboot performed)
-Formatted as ext2
-Mounted over /mnt
-started copy both with "cp -a" and "double pipe-connected tar"
450 to 600 MB of data were copied (out of 1.1GB) with occasional errors of
the type shown below. At the end of the copy a second try on the missing
files would return the same type of errors. Unmounting the (/dev/sda1)
partition and running fsck on it would return a _lot_ of errors;
conversely, /dev/hdc1 was clean at any time.
An excerpt of the errors observed:
Jan 30 21:01:49 pcainf2 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:01):
ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #88145: r
ec_len % != 0 - offset=0, inode=400, rec_len=46863, name_len=8256
Jan 30 21:01:49 pcainf2 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:01):
ext2_add_entry: bad entry in directory #88145: re
c_len % != 0 - offset=0, inode=400, rec_len=46863, name_len=8256
Jan 30 21:01:49 pcainf2 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:01):
Thanks a lot for *any* help!!!!!! (I promise a summary).
-Marco
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