Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:36:19 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: Problems with large ext2 fs in 2.0 |
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On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > The disk is a 2G IDE drive. There's another 1.2 G drive in the system, > > with a 1G ext2 FS on it that has no problems whatever. > > It certainly sounds like bad hardware. I've seen exactly this sort of > problem before, and in that case it was a pair of Seagate IDE drives >... > Before doing that, try reseating and, if you can, replacing all of the > cables between controller and disks. Bad cables are a common > problem. Also make sure that all of your busy disks are on separate > controllers.
Better yet...if this is a news server, get rid of those IDE disks and go SCSI.
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