IBM 4.1gb drive, I can only format half of it!

[Doug Ledford]

Laszlo Vecsey wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sfdisk reports 64 heads, 32 sectors, and 4134 cylnders on /dev/sda. Its an
> IBM model DCAS-34330 68pin scsi drive, and the controller is an Adaptec
> 7880 integrated on the motherboard (intel r440lx)
> 
> I've tried various Linux kernels, from 2.0.33 stable to 2.1.89 in an
> unbelievably stripped down state. No networking or even mouse support,
> essentially just the aic7xxx scsi driver and ext2 fs :) No tagged queuing,
> SCB paging, etc. Just a bare minimum kernel.
> 
> At boot I see the following displayed:
> 
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector=512 bytes. Sectors= 8467200 [4134MB] [4.1 GB]
> 
> So far so good. I arrive at the (limited) shell, and run 'mke2fs /dev/sda'
> It chugs along, attempting to complete 517 blocks. After completing 255 it
> starts emitting the following:
> 
> Warning: could not write 8 blocks in inode table at <..number..>: No such
> file or directory

Try actually putting a partition on the drive that uses the whole drive and
doing a mke2fs on that.  If that doesn't work, I would guess that the
problem is in the glibc version of mke2fs.

-- 

 Doug Ledford  <dledford at dialnet.net>
  Opinions expressed are my own, but
     they should be everybody's.

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