Having worked for Anabelle Bits (Ex Adaptec Distributor), I have heard cases
where Adaptec suggested if it was formatted on a different SCSI controller
then reformat it using the new controller you are using now.
This may/may not be the case for you but you could try it... sleep tight as
it'll take forever.
If this system is mission critical, can you down and remove the other drives
and boot on a linux CD and partition it alone in the system? May not prove
anything but just a thought..
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 5:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] Problem with partitioning SCSI drive as ext2
Hey.
I am adding an additional SCSI drive to a system. The system currently has
two SCSI HDs on its first SCSI bus, and they are formatted into ext2
partitions (and one is the bootable drive w/ the swap space aswell). This
all works fine. I am trying to add a third SCSI drive onto the second SCSI
bus, and have it use the ext2 filesystem (like the rest do).
Drive specs: Seagate Barracudea 9.1 Gbyte Ultra SCSI catalog ST39173W/S. -
Purchased 14/4/1998.
The drive was previously running inside an SGI O2 (using the IRIX efs file
system).
I am able to partition this drive as a Linux (type 83 in cfdisk) partition,
but not as an Linux Extended (ext2 - type 85 in cfdisk) partition. I want
it all in one ext2 partition if possible - the other drives are 34Gb ones
divided into ~10Gb partitions. I used cfdisk for the partitioning of these
other drives.
Is there any reason why this may not be working for me? I have not been
able to uncover anything. Do I need to do a low-level format before I will
be able to do this? The only reason I want to have it running as an ext2 fs
is that otherwise would require a kernel recompile (The machine is a server
in an academic department and scheduling the time to swap kernals and test
it would be a pain as lots of all day and night type batch jobs are run on
the machine).
Thanks in advance
Stephen
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