I've finally upgraded my home machine to Mdk-7.0-2 from RH-5.2 (I've
been running my laptop and a couple of other machines on it for a few
months).
I am having trouble accessing my Fujitsu MO640 disk drive. My old
RH-5.2/Linux-2.0.3x kernels required patching to use it, but the 2.2.x
kernels have support for 2048 byte sectors built in. The kernel reports
reasonable info when I boot with a disk in the drive. cfdisk reports the
correct sector count and disk size, but says something about a "partial
partition" when writing a new partition table. mkfs fails miserably,
throwing SCSI errors when it tries to read sectors *way* off the end of
the disk. Needless to say, mount fails even on existing disks. I saw a
thread from some time ago (kernel circa 2.2.9) indicating that getting
consistant info for the disk size and sector size might be problematic,
but it did not report a solution.
Has anyone had recent success with this drive? Any hints or suggestions
on parameters to specify or change which might get this working? After
doing a clean install, all of my backup files are on this drive... :/
TIA
- Tom
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Thomas Lockhart
Caltech/JPL
Interferometry Systems and Technology
