Re: hamm and large drives
I've got an 8.4GB IDE in my machine that runs like a clock (without the
tick-tock :-).
JDM
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Michael Stone wrote:
> 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
>
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