Subject: Re: Kernel panics with fast writes on IDE disk
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Paul Sijben <sijben@acm.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/16/1997 21:33:57
 
Frank van der Linden wrote:
>Quoting Paul Sijben,

>> the panic reads: 
>> mode = 020640 inum=3328 fs=<mountpoint of the disk>
>
>> panic: ffs_valloc: dupalloc
>
>[..]
>
>One cause of such panics has recently been fixed (july 7th),

I just supped and created a new kernel. I still have the problem.

>If the problems are still there even if you are using a post-july 7 kernel,
>perhaps you could mail some more info about your system, like disk
>geometry, what the disklabel says, does the disk work fine under other
>systems, etc.

The disk is a Quantum 270A (IDE)

Geometry (according to the manufacturer and the boot message)
   944 cyl (800 according to disklabel -i)
   14 head
   40 sec

I created the latest disklabel with -i so the partition table reads:

.
.
.
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
.
.
.


#   size offset fstype  fsize bsize cpg  
a  32480   0    4.2BSD  1024  8192  16  # (cycl 0-57)
b  32480 32480  swap                    # (cycl 58-115)
c,d unused
h 382480 64960  4.2BSD  1024  8192  16  # (cycl 116-798)

Previously the disk had Win 3.11 installed (and was reputed to work well),
I personally did not work with the system.

Paul


--
Paul Sijben                 University of Twente, The Netherlands    
tel.: +31-53-4893735        http://www.huygens.org/~sijben/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
"You know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species  
while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?"
	            Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens