[97306] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Big Disk Installation Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Helly)
Mon Nov 2 14:39:49 1998
From: "John Helly" <hellyj@SDSC.EDU>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>, <epapirakis@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:47:14 -0800
In-Reply-To: <19981102182626.17796.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi.
Thanx to Emmanuel for the reply. Well I finally managed to get the 6.4G
Maxtor to work with 5.0 after using fdisk and ONLY 3 Linux primary
partitions and 1 swap partition. I have had NO SUCCESS at all with Disk
Druid or using extended partitions with either Disk Druid or fdisk. It's
only been working for 1 day so maybe it will self-destruct shortly. I'll
keep the list apprised.
cheers.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emmanuel Papirakis [mailto:epapirakis@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 10:26 AM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Big Disk Installation Problems
>
>
> 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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