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- From: fridlund@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Jim Fridlund)
- Subject: Re: HELP!!!! SCSI problem!
- In-Reply-To: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu's message of 12 Dec 1992 00:44:24 GMT
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- Organization: U of MN Computer Science
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:32:04 GMT
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- In article <1gbcl8INN602@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs) writes:
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- > I'm really not at all happy with linux so far. Its nuked my harddrive and
- > caused me hours of untold grief. I've asked all the IRC #linux gurus I
- > couldhunt down for help and they don't seem to have a clue... so here
- > goes:
- > I have a Western Digital 7000FASST SCSI controller, and a Maxtor 338meg
- > hard drive. Its physical characteristics are:
-
- Sorry about your unfortunate experience. I, too, am having problem
- with the Maxtor drive. I have a Maxtor LXT-8380S. I'm hoping that it
- is not a SCSI circuitry problem on the drive. Also, I own an Adaptek
- 1542B (Bios version 3.10). Maybe Linus or Eric can help us on this?
-
- Anyone out there with a Maxtor beast like mine? I'm not too happy
- with my Maxtor drive right now. I'd like it to be used as a Linux
- file system with X installed instead of me putting DOS games on
- there... I need a windowing system that is true multi-tasking.
- MS Windows does an ok job, but it's to sloooooow...
-
- My problem is that I can 'mkfs' a partition ok and I can even put some
- files on it, BUT not realiably. It seems that the i-node table gets
- corrupted somehow. I always get messages like:
-
- free_inode: bit XXX already cleared...
-
- After this, all I can really do is do another 'mkfs' on that
- partition.
-
- > Cylinders = 1632 !!!! They say this is a problem !!!!
- > Tracks/sector = 54
- > Heads = 8
- > Tracks/Zone = 8
- > Alt. Sectors/zone = 5
- > Alt. Tracks/zone = 0
- > Bytes/Pysical sector = 512
- > Interleave = 1
- > Track Skew = 0
- > Cylinder Skew = 16
-
- The parameters above sounds about right. However, my Adaptec bios
- maps it to something like:
-
- 512 bytes/sect
- 32 sect/track
- 64 track/cyl
- 2048 sector/cylinder
-
- (This is what I got from 386bsd "disklabel" when I attempted to
- install 386bsd last summer). I believe this is how DOS looks at it
- also. Yeah, I didn't have much luck with 386bsd either.
-
- > I then run "fdisk /dev/sda" and I enter the extended options menu and
- > enter the tracks, cylinders and heads and it ends up nuking my hard drive
- > without fail.
-
- I never tried this. Sorry to hear about your drive. Can someone out
- there help us out??? I would like to know whether this is a drive
- problem or not. I'm going to print out the fs and scsi code and try
- to make something out of it. (NOTE: I don't know too much about
- implementation file systems or how SCSI works. Only OS theory learned
- in class) :) Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.
- --
- Jim Fridlund U of MN - Computer Science
- fridlund@mermaid.micro.umn.edu Institute of Technology
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