Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A
Jens Ritter wrote:
>
> Ralph Winslow <rjw@nac.net> writes:
>
> > I just got a new HD and tried to format it using my Debian 1.0
> > Installation Boot
> > & Emergency disk set. I made the disk primary and unplugged my current
> > 2.1Mb
> > drive and booted the first disk and partitioned using the second
> > (Ramdisk).
>
> What do you mean by "using the second"?
I mean the second, Ramdisk, diskette.
>
> > I made a 100Mb swap and the rest, ~3Gb, Linux bootable, then made the
> > swap area
> > with no problems. But when I tried to format the Linux partition it
> > failed with
> > 256/373mkfs.ext2: can'r resolve symbol 'llseek'.
>
> I wonder if this is a known bug. Can you reproduce it?
I tried re-running it three times. I'm reluctant to report a bug on
Debian 1.0
software, though.
> Please report it if necessary.
>
> > I then made the drive
> > secondary
> > and re-plugged my 2Gb 2.2 primary drive and rebooted, hoping to format
> > from my
> > regular system. I tried mke2fs /dev/hdd, but it says, no such device.
>
> Try mke2fs /dev/hdd2 or /dev/hdd5 depending on if the ~3GB is in a
> primary or extended partition.
# mke2fs /dev/hdd2
mke2fs 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
mke2fs: No such device while trying to determine filesystem size
>
> /dev/hdd is the complete hard disk.
>
> Please post a "fdisk -l", if it does not work.
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 973 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 152 306400+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 * 153 406 512064 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 407 457 102816 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 458 973 1040256 83 Linux
> What does dmesg report?
# dmesg
Linux version 2.2.1 (root@rjw) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 Debian
GNU/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #2 Sat May 1 14:07:16 EDT 1999
Detected 120001220 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 47.92 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63280k/65536k available (940k kernel code, 412k reserved, 868k
data, 36k init)
CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xfa6c9
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Starting kswapd v 1.5
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
hda: Maxtor 72004 AP, ATA DISK drive
hdb: 665A, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: Maxtor 72004 AP, 1916MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=973/64/63, DMA
hdb: ATAPI 5X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is an 8272A
PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of
California
PPP line discipline registered.
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256).
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 36k freed
Adding Swap: 102812k swap-space (priority -1)
registered device ppp0
>
> > I did
> > an apropos format | more, but didn't spot a disk formatter in the
> > voluminous
> > output. Can anyone spare a clue for a veteran? TIA
>
> mke2fs is the formatter.
>
> Jens
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