hi,
> Bad hard drive.
badblocks shows nothing, and i have another of these 40 gig drives on a
different machine that does the exact some thing.
kaos:/# fsck /backup
Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999)
e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hdc1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Padding at end of block bitmap is not set. Fix? yes
/dev/hdc1: * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *
/dev/hdc1: 11/5003712 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 157031/10006479 blocks
kaos:/# fsck /backup
Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999)
e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hdc1: clean, 11/5003712 files, 157031/10006479 blocks
kaos:/# mount -o rw /backup
kaos:/# cd /backup
kaos:/backup# touch aoeu
touch: aoeu: Read-only file system
kaos:/backup# cd ..
kaos:/# umount /backup
kaos:/# fsck /backup
Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999)
e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hdc1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
and it goes on with the same error!
someone mentioned about these drives using ATA66? would that have any effect
here?
Regards,
Marc-Adrian Napoli
Network Administrator
Connect infobahn Australia
+61 2 92120387
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:12:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> >
> > when copying files over to this drive, i always get errors. by that i
mean i
> > run fsck on the drive and there are errors. as soon as the fsck is
finished
> > i run it again and there are errors again. its now to the point where i
cant
> > even mount the drive read/write because there are so many errors!
> >
> > is the drive simply too big? am i getting these errors because bios
didnt
> > detect them?
>
>
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