On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, David Relson wrote: > Hi Alan, > > I took a shot at building 2.6.13-rc6 and running it. Unfortunately it > complained on reboot - "unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(3,1)". As a guess, it's complaining because my root fs > is ext3 and that's built as a module. In any case I've not yet had a > chance to experiment more.
An ext3 root fs can cause problems. Normally people include the ext3 driver module in their initrd image. > I _did_ start badblocks at yesterday. Between 20:00 yesterday and > 17:00 today, it applied its 4 bit patterns to the 48M blocks of the > drive, didn't hang, and found zero errors That sounds very good. This is still with 2.6.11? > Tonight I'll run full backups of my 2 machines, a process that usually > produces a "drive disconnect" state. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users