Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jun 1998 21:22:13 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Can't format hard disk |
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On Fri, 29 May 1998, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> I'm using 2.0.34pre14 and I am trying to format a 514M hard disk > with ext2. > > I've created a single partition, and tried to format it, to no > avail. I then ran badblocks with write testing, and had no > problems. Once again I formatted, and it failed. Here is the > screen output from my badblocks command, and mke2fs.
> Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done > Block 0 in primary superblock/group descriptor area bad. > Blocks 0 through 2 must be good in order to build a filesystem. > Aborting....
I've seen this error too, on my MO drive. It dissapeared when I formatted the disk with 1k block size...
I don't have any clue as to what the reason was, but it did 'solve' the problem. Somebody have a clue (tytso)?
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