On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Robert Giles wrote:

> Been having these strange lines come up in my logs every few hours,
> each occurrence identical to the last, always showing up in pairs:
> 
> kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> kernel: 03:03: rw=2, want=1073741825, limit=1360800
> kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> kernel: 03:03: rw=2, want=1073741825, limit=1360800
> 
> /dev/hda3 is my Linux partition, about 1.2GB in size - this seems to 
> correlate with 03:03 and 1360800 limit in the error message.

Have you run fdisk on the device.  I don't know whether it would cause
this error, but I know that it is possible to specify a drive size to
fdisk that doesn't match the drive's physical geometry.

---Tom

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Tom Bryan
Applied Research Laboratories
University of Texas at Austin


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