I've fighting a problem with a 60GB drive I got recently. If anyone can
help out, I'd greately appreciate it. I ran mke2fs to put the
filesystem in the partition (/dev/hdd1). When I mount the pristine
filesystem for the first time (right after mke2fs), I get dozens of
errors like the ones shown below:
Apr 15 23:35:17 tone kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,65)):
ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Block #496 of the inode table in group 250 is
marked free
Apr 15 23:35:18 tone kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,65)):
ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free blocks count for group 250, stored
= 32254, counted = 17294
Apr 15 23:35:18 tone kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,65)):
ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free inodes count in super block, stored
= 4128692, counted = 4097999
Apr 15 23:35:11 tone kernel: EXT2-fs warning: mounting fs with errors,
running e2fsck is recommended
I don't think that running e2fsck is going to help since the filesystem
should have been clean immediately after using mke2fs. I've also used
mke2fs -c with and without the -c, but I always have the same problem.
I've read the Large Disk HOWTO. It seems overly concerned with getting
the drive to boot or work with other operating systems. This new drive
is on a Linux-only system and it's *not* the boot device.
I've included some particulars here to try to help out:
BIOS:
The BIOS is flashed to the latest version, but it only handles drives up
to 32GB. The BIOS would hang on boot unless I set the "alternate"
jumper which instructs the drive to report that it is a smaller drive
(32 GB I think). So I keep the "alternate" jumper on.
fdisk:
It never detects the proper size of the drive. It doesn't even detect
what the BIOS detects, so I use expert mode to set the proper numbers.
I've tried various geometries that work out to just less than the LBA
size of the drive. I also tried geometries that use only 32MB and 16MB
of the drive, but I still have the same problem. My latest attempt was
to set the CHS to exactly what the BIOS detects (65531/16/63). Same
problem: errors are reported when mounting the newly created, pristine
filesystem on /dev/hdd1.
Can anyone help me?
- Bob Glover
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