Hi Steve!
On Tue, 06 Nov 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> Sorry, but your disk would appear to be in very bad shape after this,
> those bad magic number values actually appear to be copies of the xfs
> super block. There appears to have been some random splattering of
> data onto the disk.
>
> Do you have any syslog messages from before the system went down?
Sorry, no further messages logged. All i can say is that this new SMP
system has been working fine for about 1/2 hour before this happened.
> Also, what type of partition was this? Were you using md/lvm, what
> was the hardware involved. Also, which compiler did you use?
>
> Steve
>
> p.s. 2.4.10 is supposedly not the best kernel to be running, 2.4.13
> is out on the ftp site, and 2.4.14 should arrive there today.
>
>
>From the dmesg output:
sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 11, function 0
sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up)
sym53c8xx: 53c895 detected with Tekram NVRAM
sym53c895-0: rev 0x1 on pci bus 0 device 11 function 0 irq 10
sym53c895-0: Tekram format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, Parity Checking
scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39216N Rev: 0010
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Vendor: IBM Model: DPSS-309170N Rev: S93E
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
This partition (mounted as /var) was located on the Seagete disk. It's
an Ultra SCSI model on a Tekram DC-390U2W controller.
Here's the partitioning layout:
Name Flags Part. Typ Dateisystemtyp [Bezeichner] Größe (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sda1 Boot Primäre Linux ext2 [boot] 10,49
sda2 Primäre Linux ext2 [/] 169,87
sda3 Primäre Linux ext2 [usr] 1399,85
sda5 Logische Linux XFS [home] 2999,98
sda6 Logische Linux XFS [var] 4500,49
sda7 Logische Linux swap 105,91
The kernel was actually compiled on another machine which has
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
gcc version 2.95.4 20010721 (Debian prerelease)
Somehow i have the feeling that it was SMP related. The same setup
has been working nicely on my old box for 1/2 year with different
2.4.x + XFS kernels.
Also i can still access all other partitions. After the reinstall i
copied the whole /home (with only one user) to the 2nd disk.
>From your answer i guess there's little chance to rescue some data
from this partition?
Bye, Stefan
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