On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 03:05:28AM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
-> 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... :/
Tom, have you considered reformatting the drive to use 512 byte sectors
like the rest of the world?
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