On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:45:39PM -0900, Britton wrote: > I recently got a new 80G ATA disk, and cloned my debian install onto an > ext3 journaled file system on it. Now some programs that move lots of > data seg fault sometimes, causing subsequent ls to hang or my machine to > lock up completely. I think the kernel may be needing to do special work > to compensate for my bios not knowing about really big drives, because > older kernels didn't see the whole of even my 40G drive, and my bios > giives me an update ESCD successful (or something like that) on every > bootup. Ext3 would not be causing this. Your broken bios would. Troubleshoot around this. There should be a hard disk upgrade howto that has some pointers how to fix this. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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