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- From: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: HELP!!!! SCSI problem!
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 18:03:18 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs)
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-
- In a previous article, fridlund@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Jim Fridlund) says:
-
- >> 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?
-
- Thanks for all the help people have given me through e-mail, but it
- still hasn't fixed the problem. I tried telling fdisk my drive settings
- were 64 heads, 32 sectors/track and XXX cylinders. It didn't work.
- I still get a partition table looking something like this when I do a
- "p" from the extended fdisk menu. (its not the exact thing, but its the
- general numbers)
-
- 1 00 00 00 00 00
- 2 00 00 00 00 00
- 3 00 00 00 00 00
- 4 00 0833896454445964 50
-
- No matter what I do it still gives me that.
-
-
- >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...
- >
-
- Lets hope that I don't have a similar problem when once (IF!) I get fdisk
- to behave.
-
- Again, here are the PHYSICAL chracteristics of my drive:
-
- >> 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
- >
-
-
- Any SCSI gurus out there, I'd really appreciate it if you got down off your
- secluded hills and took a break from your medidation to help us morals out.
-
- Many thanks,
- Kevin Jacobs - Zen Exterminator of the silicon world
-
-
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