bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (06/06/91)
A while ago in the news there was some excitement about the problem some systems have in the SCSI drivers addressing blocks at the end of disks with capacity greater than a gigabyte. I have a Fuji 2266 (1.07 GB formatted), and on a file system that extends near the end of the disk (partition 5, blocks 1359360 to 2017439) I am seeing some intermittent file corruption. I'm wondering if this might be attributable to SCSI driver problems. On the other hand, I'm using partition 1 (blocks 2066400-2106719) for swap, and it seems to me that I should get other weird errors too if the driver isn't working properly (e.g., programs swapping corrupted program text and dying mysteriously). I am not seeing this. Do the RISC/os drivers work properly for big disks?
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (06/06/91)
From article <4478@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>, by bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral): > I have a Fuji 2266 (1.07 GB formatted), and on a file system that > extends near the end of the disk (partition 5, blocks 1359360 to > 2017439) I am seeing some intermittent file corruption. I'm wondering > if this might be attributable to SCSI driver problems. Perhaps another possibility is this: we find the corruption while editing large files with vi. Possibly a bug in vi instead? -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu