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Re: Disk dont work with linux ?!



On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:03:26PM +0200, Attila Szilagyi wrote:
> Hi dear debian users,
> 
> I would like ask for some help. I need install Debian Sarge on an old
> 333MHZ Celeron machine. This machine include an old SEAGATE 3,2GB hdd.
> With win98 this disc work good. I started install debian and i made an
> ext3 partition on the disk, bat after made a partition debian-installer
> saw me "unable to mount /". Next i inserted this disk to another
> computer and i installed debian on the disk. After i again connected a
> disk to old machine workd good for 20 minits. After 20min the system
> remounted root file system in read-only mod, and printed out "Ext3 error
> ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure".
> 
> Why it dont work? Why work it good with win98? How can i solve a
> problem? 
> Please help.
> 
Sounds like a driver issue.  What kernel are using?  Have you loaded the
correct driver for you motherboard's chipset?  Have you tried enabling
or disabling DMA on the drive?

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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