Re: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com> writes:

> I have a machine I am trying to install Debian on.  It is an AMD-64 and has 
> a DPT RAID card.  The disks appear on the I2O bus.
>
> The Debian installer recognises them (once I have told it to load the right 
> driver), and partitions them, but there is a problem when it comes to 
> formatting them for EXT-3.
>
> Either through the installer, or manually on VC2, the format seems to go
> OK, but when I come to mount it, mount complains of an invalid parameter.

Please paste the error message.

> The manual mount command I tried was:-
>
> mount -t ext3 /dev/i2o/hda/part1 /target
>
> /target exists, as does the /dev/i2o/hda/part1.
>
> The I2O maintainer is a bit confused as to why the disk is not called
> /dev/i2o/hda1, but that appears to be a Debianism.
>
> I also tried putting a small IDE drive on this box, and then I tried to format
> it using the installer, and that hung at 100%.

Did you wait a while? mke2fs fills the cache and can then hang at the
end for quite a while till the disk catches up writing.

> David

MfG
        Goswin