Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 May 1997 00:23:49 -0400 | From | Frank Sweetser <> | Subject | System hang on IDE drive mkfs |
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==> Regarding System hang on IDE drive mkfs; Don Fisher <dfisher@as.arizona.edu> adds:
dfisher> Hi, I purchased a Quantum bigfoot 6GB ide disk drive. I fdisked dfisher> it to one partition equal to the disk size. Fdisk claims the dfisher> drive has 15 heads, 63 sectors and 13446 cylinders which I believe dfisher> is correct. When I try to make a file system on the drive, the dfisher> following error occurs-
What version of mke2fs are you running? IIRC, earlier versions had problems with filesystems over 2G. Try getting 1.10 from tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/ext2fs and see what happens..
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