From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon May 19 10:39:25 2008 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] ext2 8GB ?? From: Alan Hourihane To: Roger Burrows Cc: mint In-Reply-To: <482C4F0C.29964.862946@anodyne.cyberus.ca> References: <1210244835.10300.11.camel@localhost> , <1210756301.10288.6.camel@localhost> , <1210870847.10290.18.camel@localhost> <482C4F0C.29964.862946@anodyne.cyberus.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:30:09 +0100 Message-Id: <1211207409.10285.23.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:56 -0400, Roger Burrows wrote: > Hi Alan > On 15 May 2008 at 18:00, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > > > Ugh, and the fix was .... > > > > 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. > > > > I have some 7720 bridges that I've used for testing and for installing DVD > writers on my TT. I've not seen that problem, but I'm not sure if I ever used > an ext2 filesystem with them [I did have a 137GB FAT32 drive on the SCSI port > for a few days though]. What firmware level are the bridges at? When I've > finished reorganising my gear (moving it all to the same (large) room), I'll > see if I can reproduce your problem. I'm at firmware 3.88 which is the latest from the website as far as I can tell. Alan.