kernel 2.4.21-ac4 Intel D865PERL motherboard (with SATA interface) Maxtor 260GB SATA HD
after compiling the ac kernel the SATA disk was recognized and I could create filesystem and mount the disk. However soon after starting to write the data I got lots of errors. So I ran badblocks:
jojda:/home/erik# badblocks -s -v -w -c 64 -o badblocks.out /dev/sda Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode From block 0 to 245117376 Testing with pattern 0xaa: done Reading and comparing: done Testing with pattern 0x55: done Reading and comparing: done Testing with pattern 0xff: done Reading and comparing: done Testing with pattern 0x00: done Reading and comparing: done Pass completed, 110899617 bad blocks found.
That looks like half the disk is unreadable (from 134217772 to 245117375, even though I didn't check whether every single block in that range is bad). Could it be a problem of new SATA driver? Or some other problem related to the size of the disk?
I googled SATA, searched kernel mailing list archives, read (pretty much obsolete) Large disk HOWTO... found nothing
(it could be bad disk, I am going to boot the other os and see if the CD that came with disk helps...)
TIA
erik
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