Re: Access past end of device

Stewart Smith (stewart@linux.org.au)
Thu, 5 Jun 2003 04:40:08 +1000


On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:23:50PM -0500, Jeremy Salch wrote:
> I did a fdisk on the device /dev/sda and it found no bad blocks.

That's a good thing - be greatful :)

> I was given the suggestion from one person it sounds like a kernel bug since
> redhat patches their kernels soo much.

Could be, try a kernel.org kernel and see if the problem persists. If it goes away, file a bug report with redhat. I would think fdisk would come up with an error on a corrupt partition map, so if it doesn't then ur probably looking at some oddity... try the kernel.org kernel :)

- stew
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