Hello there. I am running slack 10.0 on a machine using software raid 0 and 1 for various partitions, and it's been pretty good so far.

Here's my most recent issue I've had.

I have a 250GB maxtor ide drive running as secondary master (on the same ide chain as my cd rom) on which I created one big partition with ext3. (i had tried ext2 with the same result)

When I use the -c option with mkfs.ext3 (or ext2) to check for bad blocks, the thing takes forever!! It ran for 4 days before I cancelled the command with ^c

So now I removed and recreated the partition with fdisk /dev/hdc - I made one big primary partition.

I then make an ext3 filesystem without checking for bad blocks.

Now I used the e2fsck to check the filesystem with the command e2fsck -v -c -p /dev/hdc1

It's been sitting there for 2 days with no output and a solid HD activity led.

help!