I've had access beyond end of device errors with freshly formatted partitions.
There is some problem with the use of the DMA with my WD drives - turn off the DMA
and the problem goes away.
Jah
Mark Hagger wrote:
> Since reformating the heavily used (and heavily fragmented) partitions on our
> system (16 machines with 17Gbyte /local partitions that are used as scratch
> space for number crunching applications) I have had no more "Access beyond end
> of device errors".
>
> Of course once the disks get heavily used enough to start being significantly
> fragmented again and/or inodes start being re-used I'm guessing that I'll start
> getting the errors again!
>
> So my solution would be, if possible, to reformat any paritions that show this
> problem! Obviously not ideal if its your root partition.....
>
> No doubt someone out there will prove me wrong.....
>
> Mark
>
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