I refer only to 640 Mbyte media. I've not tried 230 which I also have. in short, reading is fine. Writing is sh... I have some disk with OS data on them, and I copied one to CD, being very careful I can read the dta from the CD. I then set to convert the disk to ext2, and have had errors running mke2fs, using dd to write all over the disk, trying to format it with scsi utils. I have verified the disk using my SCSI BIOS and it checked out fine. Just in case, i reformatted it, again without problem. I built and booted a 2.2.18 kernel and made an ext2 fs on it with no problem. It remeans unusable with 2.4.0. As of very recently, I get these messages at boot (I'm back on 2.4.0):MSDOS: Hardware sector size is 2048 fatfs: bogus cluster size VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 08:01. MSDOS: Hardware sector size is 2048 fatfs: bogus cluster size VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 08:01. I've no idea what is looking at it; it's not supposed to be mounted. Here are the messages I get trying to write to the disk: Jan 14 10:55:47 dugite kernel: ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024) Jan 14 10:57:29 dugite kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1310752 Jan 14 10:57:29 dugite kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1311004 Jan 14 10:57:29 dugite kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1311256 Jan 14 10:57:29 dugite kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1311508 Jan 14 10:57:29 dugite kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1311760 Jan 14 10:57:29 dugite kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1312012 Jan 14 10:57:29 dugite kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 1312264 The SCSI adaptor is 00:0b.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-294x / AIC-7871 (rev 03) -- Cheers John Summerfield http://www2.ami.com.au/ for OS/2 & linux information. Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index. Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
