Hate to bring this up again, but I am still having a real problem. I am using an 18gig linear md volume that is formatted ext2. I am trying to back up this large volume with a DLT4000 20gig tape drive. If I try to use a kernel lower than 1.3.64 or so the tape drive gives me SCSI sense errors. If I try and use a kernel that is higher than 1.3.33 (or whatever that lower kernel patch was that someone posted in the projects section a month or so ago) then e2fsck dumps out with an error complaining that it was unable to allocate a block large enough to handle the inode buffers for the drive (or something along those lines, sorry).
My assumption is one of the following: 1) The newer kernels are larger and I was skating on the edge of some upper limit of memory usage during startup with the old kernel. 2) The old e2fsck does not get along with some aspect of the upgraded md driver. 3) I'm goofy. Any light shed on this situation would render me positively foaming with thanks. e. -- Ean Schuessler - Director New Products/New Technologies Novare International, Inc. - The unstoppable fist of digital action http://www.novare.net
