I think the DM6 message is telling you that disk manager was installed
on the disk and the kernel is adjusting the disk geometry to match
that used by disk manager.
What kind of mke2fs errors are you getting? Are you sure hdc1 is type
83 (Linux)?
Tony
On Thursday, October 22, 1998 4:19 AM, daudi TRIBUNE [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
