For my Fujitsu MO I must use for the 640 MB snd the 1.3 GB 3.5" MOD
the option -b 2048
fdisk -b 2048 /dev/sdd
and also for the
mkfs.ext2 -b 2048 /dev/sd?
For the 128,230,540 MB 3.5" MOD I don't need this option because the size
is 512
Without the -b 2048 I got also a kernel panic.
On 16-Jul-00 Axel Reinhold wrote:
> MOD 1024 sector size doubles partition size
>
> Tried Kernel versions 2.2.12-32 (RedHat 6.1) and new 2.2.16-6.
> Look at the following weird output:
>
> [root@joe linux]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: DEC Model: RZ26N (C) DEC Rev: 1104
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
> Vendor: DEC Model: RZ26N (C) DEC Rev: 1104
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST43400N Rev: 1028
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 01 Id: 03 Lun: 00
> Vendor: HP Model: C1716T Rev: 3406
> Type: Optical Device ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> [root@joe linux]# cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0
> Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.1.20/3.2.4
> Compile Options:
> TCQ Enabled By Default : Disabled
> AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Enabled
> AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 5
>
> Adapter Configuration:
> SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AIC-7770 SCSI host adapter
> Narrow Controller Channel A
> Programmed I/O Base: bc00
> BIOS Memory Address: 0x000cc000
> Adapter SEEPROM Config: SEEPROM not found, using defaults.
> Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Disabled
> IRQ: 14
> SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 3,
> Allocated 15, HW 4, Page 255
> Interrupts: 6553 (Level Sensitive)
> BIOS Control Word: 0x0000
> Adapter Control Word: 0x6767
> Extended Translation: Disabled
> Disconnect Enable Flags: 0xffff
> Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0000
> Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0000
> Default Tag Queue Depth: 8
> Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0:
> {255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255}
> Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0:
> {1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1}
>
> (scsi0:1:3:0)
> Device using Narrow/Sync transfers at 5.0 MByte/sec, offset 8
> Transinfo settings: current(50/8/0/0), goal(25/15/0/0), user(25/15/0/0)
> Total transfers 3 (3 reads and 0 writes)
> < 2K 2K+ 4K+ 8K+ 16K+ 32K+ 64K+ 128K+
> Reads: 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> Writes: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
>
> [root@joe linux]# fdisk -l /dev/sdd
>
> Disk /dev/sdd: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 307 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdd1 1 4 4080 83 Linux
> [root@joe linux]# cat /proc/partitions
> major minor #blocks name
>
> 8 48 314569 sdd <<<<<< This is right!
> 8 49 8160 sdd1 <<<<<< This is wrong -> doubled
>
> When I set up a filesystem and use get ext2 panics.
> Filesystem is double the size of the partition.
> Must be a bug in "sd.c".
>
> Please Help. Cannot use MOD Drive.
>
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