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- From: deryck@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Deryck F Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Maxtor 7213 woes...
- Message-ID: <BxszLE.JDG@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:56:01 GMT
- Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
- Lines: 50
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- OK, perhaps I should have remembered that discussion about the Maxtor 7213
- and Linux, but I thought the problem only persisted with the early PROMs.
- Anyway, here's the problem...
-
- I just got a nice shiny new Maxtor (the PROM revision is 65a I think)
- that is configured as the slave of two drives (wouldn't work as the
- master with my old Kyocera KC40GA drive). I have a 100M DOS partition
- and I wanted to use the rest of the disk for Linux. I grabbed the SLS
- distribution and with my 28 floppies in hand started to install...
-
- I've partitioned the remainder of the disk as:
- 16M /dev/hdb1 swap
- 16M /dev/hdb2 /tmp
- /dev/hdb3 extended partition
- 26M /dev/hdb5 /
- 44M /dev/hdb6 /usr
-
- The install seems to work except I couldn't run mkefs on any of the
- partitions (mkswap seems to work, although I haven't really tried
- exercising the virtual memory). I keep getting the error:
-
- HD: write_intr: drive status = 0x51
- HD: write_intr: error no = 0x10
-
- I checked and the status is (READY_STAT | SEEK_STAT | ERR_STAT)
- and the error no is ID_ERR.
-
- If I use mkfs instead, the partition seems OK but after copying files onto
- it, e.g.
- # mkfs /dev/hdb6 num-blocks
- # mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt
- # cp -R /usr /mnt
- # umount /dev/hdb6
- # fsck /dev/hdb6
-
- The fsck gives heaps of errors about incorrect zones, files cross-linked,
- and generally the entire file system is wrecked.
-
- I've gotten Linux installed on a 22M partition on my Kyocera drive and its
- working fine. I've tried building new kernels with all sorts of tweaks
- in the blk_drvs/hd.c but all to no avail.
-
- Can anyone help me :-(
-
- Deryck
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