Am Fr, den 10.09.2004 schrieb Jurzitza, Dieter um 16:42: > Dear listmembers, > dear Daniel, > the formatting works now, this has been my fault (as always ...). However, I am running into severe file-system corruption. > > I have been initializing a 40GByte Maxtor hdd, copied files to it, and I could boot. Everything runs just smooth. > > Doing the same with the new 400G Hitachi drive results in massive file-system corruption. Copying seems to work ok, but after trying to boot from this disk I get a total mess. > > DMA is turned off in all cases (at the boot prompt). This ought to be a pickyness of the controler, isn't it (Promise 133 TX2 PCI-Device) i use the promise 133 ultra tx2 with chipset pdc20269 works here really fine with some 200GB and 160GB Hardrives connected one thing you can check is if you need to enable lba48 somwhere in the drive with a manufacter tool. example: i recived a set of samsung sp1604n wich is udma6/133 capable. but my controller tells me that all my drives are only using udma5 so i contacted the manufacter and the told me that i need hutil from samsung-website to set the harddrive(bios inside HD) to enable udma6. i know udma is not responsible for size but just as example regards daniel > > Any ideas? > > Again, many thanks for your help, > take care > > > > Dieter Jurzitza > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel J. Priem [mailto:devel@walki.homelinux.org] > *** > ide: limit drive capacity to 137GB if host doesn't support LBA48 > > this looks for me that if you host does not support lba48 the you can > **** > > > ******************************************* > Diese E-Mail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und loeschen Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the contents in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. > *******************************************
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