Re: Problem creating filesystem
Gaius Mulley <gaius@glam.ac.uk> writes:
> lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:14:08PM +0100, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> > > I'm interested - as I had a similar experience yesterday. I used the
> > > SID netinst dated 6 Sept iirc. My experience was:
> > >
> > > 250 GB drive - bios occasionally didn't spot it, the netinst SID
> > > couldn't detect the correct IDE kernel modules to load for the disk.
> > > I gave up on this disk and moved to:
> >
> > SATA or IDE 250G?
>
> IDE 250G on the same cable as below..
>
> > > 20 GB drive - mkfs ok (but it took ages - maybe I was having dma
> > > timeout during this, and ide reset messages - I didn't look).
> > > Later on when installing packages onto the drive I had many ide
> > > timeouts, dma problems (just like the ones you reported).
> > > However I also tried installing an older Suse 9.1 (64 bit)
> > > and it also took ages to mkfs and died during installing packages.
> > > Eventually I gave up and used another disk:
> > >
> > > 10 GB drive - which worked fine.. mkfs, install, later I compiled gcc
> > > etc etc
> >
> > Hmm, a 10G disk is likely old enough to be at most UDMA33. It would
> > work fine with a 40wire ide cable.
>
> yes true..
>
> > > My next test will be to replace the IDE cables with brand new ones
> > > (the cables came from an older machine which also had the 20 and 10 GB
> > > drives).
> >
> > Make sure to use an 80wire ide cable, since the MB supports faster than
> > UDMA33 and if any drive supports faster than that, it will try to use it
> > and that only works reliably with an 80wire ide cable. A 20G might be
> > new enough to do UDMA66.
>
> ahh, this sounds logical and likely sums up what was happening on
> this machine. I've just ordered brand new 80 wire IDE cables just to
> be sure - will test next Wednesday..
ok, bought new IDE cables, sadly the 250GB disk still didn't respond.
So we've now replaced the 250GB disk for a new 400 GB IDE disk and it
works fine using exactly the same Sid install disk. Looks like it was
bad luck with the drives (and possibly the ide cable as well),
regards Gaius
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