Re: Access past end of device

[Stewart Smith]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:13:02AM -0500, Jeremy Salch wrote:
> I'm using a dell powerall web 120 with scsi drives installed
> Using redhat 7.2 with the 2.4.18-19.7.x kernel installed 
> 
> Attempt to access beyond end of device
> 08:06: rw=0, want=1044196, limit=1044193
> 1044192
> Pass completed, 1 bad blocks found.
> And fdisk reports there to be 1044193+ blocks in the partition ?

Sounds like the partition map is a bit incorrect.

Try running badblocks on the drive itself (/dev/hda, not hda1).
If the problem disappears then it's with the partition map (i'd guess).

- stew