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Date:      Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:44:11 -0600
From:      "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@adaptec.com>
To:        "'Vivek Khera'" <khera@kcilink.com>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: dscheck warning messages (with Dell PERC3 controller)
Message-ID:  <2C7CBDC6EA58D6119E4A00065B3A24CB046410@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com>

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> 
> I have a dual CPU Dell box on which I run Postgres.  The other night,
> the nightly mail included a bunch of warnings liks this:
> 
> > dscheck(#aacd/0x20006): negative b_blkno -2119051990
> > dscheck(#aacd/0x20006): negative b_blkno -2119051992
> > dscheck(#aacd/0x20006): negative b_blkno -2119051970
> > dscheck(#aacd/0x20006): negative b_blkno -2119051970
> > dscheck(#aacd/0x20006): negative b_blkno -2119051990
> > dscheck(#aacd/0x20006): negative b_blkno -2119051989
> > dscheck(#aacd/0x20006): negative b_blkno -2119051988
> > dscheck(#aacd/0x20006): negative b_blkno -2119051987
> > dscheck(#aacd/0x20006): negative b_blkno -2119051986
> 
> The device reports itself at boot as
> 
> aac0: <Dell PERC 3/Si> mem 0xf0000000-0xf3ffffff irq 2 at 
> device 2.1 on pci1
> aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 54MB cache memory, no battery support
> aac0: Kernel 2.1-3, Build 2951, S/N 3801d0
> 
> The system is newly upgraded from 4.4-STABLE to 4.6-RELEASE-p1 (a week
> prior to this message showing up).  The machine was originally
> installed with a 4.4-RELEASE.
> 
> Can anyone explain what the above errors might indicate, or if there
> is something I can/should do about it?  I have not seen these messages
> since that one day they appeared.
> 
> Thanks.
>

Very bizarre.  I doubt that this is being *caused* by the controller.
Out of curiosity, what is the size of the array and each partition?
Did anything strange happen with the array size or the disklabel when 
you performed the upgrade?

Scott

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