Hope someone can help
I am runniing slackware 2.0.33
It was working fine with two hard drives hda and hdb on the primary
controller.
I added a thrid hard drive on the secondary controller and this was seen
as hdc.
The drive was partitioned but when I try to format it with "mke2fs
/dev/hdc1" it fails with errors.
I noticied in the startup that there is a reference to the MBR
Below is a part of my syslog
hope this helps
---------------------start syslog-------------------
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at
0x000f0280
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf0210
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0200
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Probing PCI hardware.
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 29.90 BogoMIPS
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Memory: 14800k/16384k available (692k kernel code, 384k
reserved, 508k data)
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16
error reporting.
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Linux version 2.0.33 (root@kym) (gcc version 2.7.2) #2 Sun
Feb 22 14:32:29 EAT 1998
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: ide0: buggy cmd640b interface on PCI (type1), config=0x1e
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: ide1: serialized, secondary interface okay
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: cmd640: drive0 timings/prefetch(on) preserved
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: cmd640: drive1 timings/prefetch(on) preserved
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: cmd640: drive2 timings/prefetch(on) preserved
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: cmd640: drive3 timings/prefetch(on) preserved
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: hda: Maxtor 7850 AV, 814MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=827/32/63
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: hdb: WDC AC21000H, 1033MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=525/64/63
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: hdc: ST33232A, 3077MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=6253/16/63
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 (serialized with ide0)
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 4f 4c 00 7c 13
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 9.
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Partition check:
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: hda: hda1 hda2
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: hdc: [DM6:MBR] [remap [DM6:MBR]] [781/128/63] hdc1 hdc2
< hdc5 >
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Oct 21 11:23:00 kym kernel: Adding Swap: 72540k swap-space (priority 2120)
------------------ end syslog -----------------
why can I not format the partitions when created?
Thanks in advance.
Daudi
