Hi,

I'm trying to put a 20MB Maxtor 2B020H1 into an old P166 RedHat 8.0 box.

It seems to mount fine and everything, but there are a bunch of i/o seek errors towards the end of the drive. Something like:


The drive is an ext3 partition mounted at /home.

I've checked the cabling and all seems well.

BIOS: set at automatic detection for LBA mode. I tried in Normal mode as well. Should I try Large mode?

What could be causing the trouble?



Outputs:
cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

cat /etc/mtab
/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /usr ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /var ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda7 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /home ext3 rw 0 0

cat /proc/mounts/
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /usr ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /var ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda7 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /home ext3 rw 0 0

fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 780 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5 10048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6 65 120960 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 66 113 96768 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 114 780 1344672 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 114 597 975712+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 598 742 292288+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 743 780 76576+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39703 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 39703 20010280+ 83 Linux



Thanks for your help!

Any clicking or threashing sounds from the drive? If so, it is getting ready to quit on you.

Make a backup quick.

No. Sounds fine. My power supply is making lots of noise lately. But that's another story.

In fact the HD seems to work fine in windows as far as i could tell.

maybe i should try and put it in my windows box again
k.