Subject: Re: port-sparc/13228: copying files to a disk with a (presumably) bad sector causes a panic
To: None <elliot@rightnowtech.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/18/2001 20:10:17
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:40:51PM -0700, elliot@rightnowtech.com wrote:
> 
> >Number:         13228
> >Category:       port-sparc
> >Synopsis:       copying files to a disk with a (presumably) bad sector causes a panic
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       non-critical
> >Priority:       low
> >Responsible:    port-sparc-maintainer
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 16 21:39:01 PDT 2001
> >Closed-Date:
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     elliot schlegelmilch
> >Release:        NetBSD 1.5
> >Organization:
> n/a
> >Environment:
> NetBSD mr-sun.internal.schlegelmilch.org 1.5 NetBSD 1.5 (GENERIC) #1: Wed Nov 29 00:29:52 MET 2000     root@flambard:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC sparc
> 
> >Description:
> two similar problems, probably same bug:
> 
> first:  
> i installed netbsd 1.5-sparc onto a  hp scsi disk , 1003 MB,
> seemed to work ok, i added a user, and 'cd /home' and caused a panic. upon rebooting, filesystems were completely hosed.  fsck -y took several minutes to run, fixing numerous (100's) of unlinked files, etc. following that, fsck would core dump every time.
> 
> second: dd'ing the good disk to the bad disk, despite different sizes, gets me
> 
> sd0(esp0:3:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x08 0c de 14 01 00
>     SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
>    INFO FIELD:  843235
>      ASC/ASCQ:  Logical Block Address Out of Range
>          SKSV:  Error in CDB, Offset 1

This doesn't looks like a bad sector, just that you're trying to write
beyond the end of the disk.
In this command it's trying to write to block 843284, which is a bit more
than 400M.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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