Am Fr, den 10.09.2004 schrieb Daniel J. Priem um 17:05: > 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) ah. forgot something important what is the bios revision on your controller? if its before 2.20.0.12( was mine) then you need to flash it to a newer version > > 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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