Hello, every week or two, I get a filesystem panic on one of my dos partitions, and when I reboot to DOS, sure enough, it's a mess.
I don't know which comes first, the panic or the mess. I fix it (PC Tools diskfix and/or DOS chkdsk), and a week or two later it's back. Any idea what might be causing that? The message in the log is usually `fat_free: deleting beyond EOF', and it sets the filesystem read-only. In kern.log, this is preceded by: Feb 16 07:31:04 legend kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 16 07:31:04 legend kernel: 03:01: rw=0, want=210587, limit=194737 Feb 16 07:31:04 legend kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 16 07:31:04 legend kernel: 03:01: rw=0, want=210587, limit=194737 Feb 16 07:31:04 legend kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Feb 16 07:31:04 legend kernel: 03:01: rw=0, want=210587, limit=194737 ... I don't think it's the kernel, since I recently switched from the default 2.0.34 to my own compiled 2.0.36+sym53c416 They are ordinary DOS partitions; I boot from one of them (using loadlin); most commonly, the panic pops up when the disk is being used over samba (in fact I can't remember it happening otherwise). BIOS spins the disk down, but normally it spins up again whenever I access it. Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.