Re: I got a big disk

[Tighe Schlottog <emry@icephyre.net>]

mike,
	what is the model number of this disk?  ill ask around in the
winders department and see if there is some finageling that you need to do
to make it work.  That is weird that it can't find the super block's after
creating them.  VERY weird.  I like these questions though.  :)

Tighe

> Tighe Schlottog wrote:
> > it still does that even with the expert install?
>
> Yup. Text mode too.
>
> Anybody seen this? I flipped to the other screens in the text install to see
> if they had any log info on why it was barfing.
>
> Screen 1:
>   Error mounting device hda3 as /: Invalid Argument.
>   [OK] to Reboot.
>
> Screen 4:
>   <4>hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
>   <4>hda: drive not ready for command
>   [repeated off the top of the screen]
>   <3>EXT3-fs: Magic mismatch, very weird !
>
> Screen 5:
>   mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
>   OS Type: Linux
>   Block Size=1024 (log=0)
>   Fragment Size=1024 (log=0)
>   12048 inodes, 48163 blocks
>   2048 blocks (5%) reserved for Super-user.
>   First data block=1
>   6 block groups
>   8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group, 2008 inodes per group
>   super block backups on 8193, 24517, 40961
>   writing inode tables: done
>   creating journal (4096 blocks): done
>   writing superblocks: done
>
>   e2label: Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/hda3
>   couldn't find valid superblock
>   e2label: Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/hda1
>   couldn't find valid superblock
>
> Anyone have any clues as to where to start looking or filing a bug report?
>
> I also tried installing with the BIOS set to CHS:0/0/0.
> Linux always sees drive geometry as 12161/255/63.
> BIOS auto-detect always sees 47885/16/255.
>
> Mike808/
>

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