[ale] "short read" errors on a HD, huh ?.........

[phrostie]

i had problems with a new drive when i switched up to mandrake 8.0.
i don't think it was mdk that was the problem, i think it was the 2.4.x 
kernel.  when i changed to debian and it's 2.2 the disk errors went away.


On Wednesday 06 February 2002 18:14, you wrote:
> Greetings !
>
> In that I want to use the entire drive, how should a 60Gig IDE HD be
> partitioned ?
>
> I am plagued with the following difficulty after creating three 4Gig
> primary partitions and since after that point I understand that I can
> only have 1 more primary partition, I created a logical partition [4
> Gig] and this is where I'm getting the following described errors.
>
> I am getting the following errors under Debian-2.4.6........
>
> 	error reading  block # <some #>
> 	short read while doing inode scan
> 	ignore y/n ?
>
> What are short reads, what's going on and what should be done to remedy
> all this ?
>
> Appreciatively,
> Courtney
>
>
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