[97291] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Big Disk Installation Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emmanuel Papirakis)
Mon Nov 2 13:31:02 1998
From: "Emmanuel Papirakis" <epapirakis@hotmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 10:26:25 PST
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OK,
listen, MAXTOR Dirves SUCK!!! Now that that's out of the way, let me
tell you how I got MY 6.4G MAXTOR drive to work.
The first one I installed worked for about a week. Then it started to
give me all sorts of irq errors untill one day when I rebooted, and it
woudn't mount anymore (one down).
So I go at the shop where I bought it, and, since they are garanteed,
the guy gives me a new one. This time, I say to my self, maybe it is
because my partitions where to big (it is said in the large disk howto
that the largest partition that linux can handle nowadays is 4*1024
gigs, so that wasn't it). So I made 2G partions instead. This one lasted
extra-long. About 2 weeks.
So I think to my self, hmm, the disk was plugged on my 2nd IDE port. It
was the first time I had plugged anything there, so it could have been
the power supply that gave to much juice. So, for my next drive, I would
split the wires that feed my 1st drive (a quantum fireball that never
failed me) so that both my drives get the same power. Also, to make sure
the drive doesn't heat up too much, I bought a 3rd fan to cool down just
that drive.
This drive lasted almost a mounth. Then the guy from the shop gave me a
new drive. This one partitioned fine, but I couldn't get it to format
(with mke2fs), It crashed. So the guy from the shop tells me that Linux
was probably the problem. So he installes another disk on my computer
(he formatted it under dos), and this one crashed too, while formatting.
The moral of this story is that maxtor drives realy suck. Maybe it
isn't a coincidence that all the drives that failed where 6.4G drives
(just like your's). So just keep on trying (by the way, your drive is
probably dead, it isn't supposed to take that long to format, and it
shouldn't give you any errors).
Papi
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