Re: Nasty bug?

[Bogdan Costescu <bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>]

On 1 Aug 2003, Paul Furness wrote:

> Aug  1 15:19:20 picard kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2789278339
> Aug  1 15:19:20 picard kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2797666947
> Aug  1 15:19:20 picard kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2806055555
> Aug  1 15:19:20 picard kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2814444163
> Aug  1 15:19:20 picard kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2822832771
> Aug  1 15:19:20 picard kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2831221379
> 
> the last message repeats many many times (> 100) with different sector
> numbers. As you can see, the sector numbers are not sequential, so it's
> not a simple hardware failure.

The numbers are not sequential, but they are monotonically increasing :-)
The difference between any 2 values is 8388608. Now if these are 512 byte 
sectors, this is exactly 4294967296 bytes which is 2^32...

This won't help you directly... but might give somebody some idea :-)

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