From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu May 15 13:52:06 2008 Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:22:36 +0300 From: George Nakos X-Mailer: The Bat! (v4.0.18) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1092841537.20080515202236@hol.gr> To: mint Subject: [MiNT] Re[2]: ext2 8GB ?? In-Reply-To: <1210870847.10290.18.camel@localhost> References: <1210244835.10300.11.camel@localhost> <1210265089.10300.18.camel@localhost> <1210403367.11782.23.camel@localhost> <1210674695.10283.3.camel@localhost> <1210679268.10283.14.camel@localhost> <1210682248.10283.16.camel@localhost> <1210689728.10283.26.camel@localhost> <1210702455.10283.47.camel@localhost> <1210756301.10288.6.camel@localhost> <1210870847.10290.18.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1253 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/7128/Thu May 15 13:45:41 2008 on takeit01.mail.dc.hol.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id m4FHq5ue025676 Hello Alan, Thursday, May 15, 2008, 8:00:47 PM, you wrote: > Well, I've got a new IDE drive with an ACARD 7720u SCSI->IDE bridge that > was hooked up to the SCSI chain. The drive appears to work fine with > GEM, but as soon as you use ext2 on it, then I get bad filesystem > corruptions. > I've now plugged the same IDE disk into the real IDE port and it's fine. > Funny thing is, that I have two of these 7720u bridges and they both > give the same problems. > Anyway, the ext2 code is performing well with gcc 4.2.3 > Alan. Yikes! Nasty! Seems that either the card has some hardware bugs, or is not implementing the scsi protocol as it should. That's a shame. I got a Yamaha scsi->ide converter which is the "Yamaha V769970" and it works with a CF on my TT fine so far. Never tested ext2 though. -- Best regards, George mailto:ggn@hol.gr