[clug] strange output from df

[Gough, Chris]

Strange behaviour from a Debian box (2.4.20-idepci kernel).

The following output from df seems a bit nuts
--
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2            -579653282885         1         0  28% /
/dev/hdb1            -2557280710065         1         0  73% /usr/SmbShare
--

and the kernel is spewing millions of these into /var/log/messages 
--
Jul 29 18:24:22 myMachine kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 29 18:24:22 myMachine kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
--

and quite a lot of these
--
Jul 29 16:13:57 myMachine kernel: ide0: reset: success
Jul 29 16:13:57 myMachine kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 29 16:13:57 myMachine kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb),
sector 32
Jul 29 16:13:57 myMachine kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
Jul 29 16:13:57 myMachine kernel: bread in fat_access failed
--

a recent
# hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda
# hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb
may have something to do with it, but 
# hdparm -S 0 /dev/hdb
didn't fix it.

can someone please tell me what's going on?

Chris Gough






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