Please help... I have a project with a number of mirrored disks. I mirror them by running fdisk, mkswap, mke2fs, and cp -ax to the new disk. The disks are Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB disks. I let the BIOS autodetect them, and then I let linux do the same, so i am not giving any special parameters for the fdisk to create the partitions. I am running Debian Unstable, and using Lilo to boot. The board that we are running on is a custom made board, running with an Advantech ETX, and our own motherboard (ie none of the hard drive logic or controlling chips were done by us, but the hd cable does connect through our board to the PMC connector on the ETX).
On some of the disks I get errors that make me think there is a physical problem: end_request: I/O error, dev, 03:02 (hda), sector xxxxxxx.. I have also gotten 'DriveReady SeekComplete Error' errors, but I don't have the exact error to give at the moment. I have on some of the disks ran e2fsck with a non-destructive physical check, and I have found no errors. What else can this be? Is there a more intensive way to check the disk, can this error be due to a cable? Might this be due to bad parameters when creating the partitions? I have been trying to deal with this error for almost half a year now, and I have searched the internet quite a bit, but I have not found anything which has explained this for me. Nachum Kanovsky Software Developer Mango DSP Ltd. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: +972 2 588 5039 Cell: +972 67 508 121 ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
