hamm and large drives

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

Has anyone had problems using large hard ide hard drives with hamm? I
was getting errors (EXT2-fs warning: ext2_free_(blocks|inode): bit
already cleared) on a 8G ide drive, followed by an EXT2-fs panic:
load_block_bitmap. I then put in a new 6.4G ide disk. The second disk
died spectacularly with a series of clunking noises and recal_intr and
write_intr messages flying up the screen. And now when I badblock scan
either drives, I don't have any problems. I don't know whether to
believe that I just had bad luck (twice), or whether the ide controller
is flakey, or whether there's a problem in the OS. This is the first
time I've run IDE drives >2G: I've never had this kind of trouble with
large SCSI disks.

Mike Stone