Hi,
I'm having some problems getting a filesystem built on a new
IDE drive, and hope that somebody will help me. (Please cc:
me when replying to the list.)
My system has 2 Western Digital 1.2 MB drives, and one ATAPI
CD-ROM.
The two 1.2's are on the primary controller, and the CD on
the secondary, which was originally jumpered as master on
the second controller.
/dev/hda1, a 1.2's, holds lilo & Win95. The /dev/hdb is all
Linux.
Today I attempted to add a 4 GB WD IDE, filling the last
available IDE device.
The motherboard is an AMI PCI Excalibur, with a pair of
on-board PCI controllers. It's about 4 years old, with the
most recent BIOS installed.
The secondary controller wasn't happy with the CD-ROM as
master and the 4.0 GB as slave. I just tried it this way,
thinking it wouldn't work, and it didn't. So the 4.0 went
to master, and the CD to slave. This was better, the 4.0
showed up, but then the system hang during boot. I told the
BIOS that there was not a secondary slave installed, and it
was then happy and booted all the way. Getting the CD
running is not that great a priority. I mostly used it for
loading the system.
The boot message reported:
hda: WDC AC31200F, 1222MBw/64kB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63
hdb: WDC AC21200H, 1222MBw/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63
hdc: WDC AC34000L, 3815MBw/256kB Cache, LB w/256kB Cache, LBA, CHS=7752/16/63
One oddity, I have LBA turned on for the secondary
controller, yet the AMI boot screen shows the LBA off for
the third drive? (I've tried all this with LBA on/off, all
the combos for the secondary controller). The BIOS doesn't
seem to offer the choice of specifying geometery to drives
on the second controller.
I ran cfdisk on the new on /dev/hdc, telling it to make it a
ext2, primary partion, and to maximize it. This drive will
be Linux-only.
cfdisk runs fine.
mkfs is another story.
mkft -t ext2 /dev/hdc1
mkfs starts building the inode tables, and counts up
nnn/407. At various points along the way (I've tried this
4x now), the nnn count-up just stops. I can't toggle to
another virtual console, vulcan nerve pince doesn't work,
cap and num locks won't toggle. I have to power down, fsck
the hdb partitions and start over.
Any solutions (besides making sure any future systems are
SCSI <g>)? I've been through the large IDE HOW-TO and the
multiple drive HOW-TO, and haven't found anything like this.
Thanks very much in advance,
Jim
--
PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
"unsubscribe" as the Subject.
