[ale] Drive/Filesystem problem...

Robert L. Harris nomad at rnd-consulting.com
Tue Nov 23 11:19:16 EST 1999


Hey all,
  I have a friend setting up a dataware house and I convinced him to 
put it on a Linux box.  Right now it's not critical so we're just
testing bandwidth, etc.  At any point, he has a 40 Gig drive in
it and wants to keep it as a 40Gig disk, not a collection of 4s, etc...
He is having some problems.  Here is the output he sent me:


> EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
> blocks count for group 0, stored = 31727, counted = 31740
> EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
> blocks count for group 53, stored = 31740, counted = 9202
> EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
> blocks count in super block, stored = 9689889, counted = 9667364
> EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free
> inodes count in group 0, stored = 32693, counted = 32704
> EXT2-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free
> inodes count in super block, stored = 10007413, counted = 10007424
> 
> Those are my main errors.  I get a lot of inode errors also.  And a ton of
> errors if I do an fsck.
> 
> The physical geometry of the drive is 16383,16,63, which is what ever drive
> 18gig is set to.
> 
> The LBA geometry of the drive is 4982,255,63.  I calculated this myself.
> 
> The computer is a PII-233 not overclocked using a tekram P6L40-A4 or
> P6L40-A4X Motherboard.  I know there are bios upgrades for this motherboard,
> but I don't know if they fix this problem.
> 
> The harddrive is a 40gig maxtor model 94098U8.
> 
> It partitions, and formats fine, but then after the format if I try to mount
> it, it gives me errors like the one above.


Anyone have any ideas?  We need to hammer this out quickly or his boss will
start pushing for NT again.

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