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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:01:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: scott thomason <scott-kernel@thomasons.org>
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Subject: Re: bio too big device
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That has to be a BIO bug or IDE setup bug.

256 sectors is legal and correct for 28-bit addressing.

Cheers,

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, scott thomason wrote:

> I frequently receive this message in my syslog, apparently 
> whenever there are periods of significant write activity:
> 
>     bio too big device ide0(3,7) (256 > 255)
>     bio too big device ide1(22,6) (256 > 255)
> 
> It's worth noting that on this system I have had ongoing trouble 
> with system stability during write activity as well, using a 
> wide variety of 2.5.x kernels, even though at the time of this 
> symptom things are apparently running fine.
> 
> Filesystems are all ext3 on top soft raid0 devices. This happens 
> to be 2.5.64, but it has been happening for at least the last 
> 5-6 versions.
> 
> Ideas? Any further debugging output I can provide?
> ---scott
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Andre Hedrick
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