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I was on this list about two years ago for a while when I bought a
SparQ drive. It carked it after a few months, and I have been waiting
18 months for a warranty replacement. It only just arrived. (Sigh.)
So I am now back to square one on a different system, encountering a
new problem. (Disclaimer: I am not a programmer I am just an end
user.) I load the modules OK, and I can read an existing (already
DOS-formatted) SparQ disk fine. However I want to create a new ext2fs
SparQ disk. I can partition this new disk with no problems.
However after a short time, in the course of making the filesystem I
get the error "Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
read while creating root dir". I can overcome this by creating just a
small filesystem in a small partition, and I can mount that partition,
but after a minute it will umount itself, I can't "cat /dev/pda" any
more, and mkfs says "fdisk says "Unable to read /dev/pda".
I fix that by "rmmod pd ; rmmod epat ; rmmod paride" and then "insmod
....", but the same thing will immediately recur when I try again.
I get errors like this in the log:
Apr 30 22:11:17 terminus kernel: pda: Lock: status = 0x4051 = ERR SEEK
READY UNC
Apr 30 22:11:17 terminus kernel: pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x4051 =
ERR SEEK READY UNC
Apr 30 22:11:17 terminus last message repeated 5 times
Apr 30 22:11:17 terminus kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 2d:00
(PD), sector 0
Apr 30 22:11:17 terminus kernel: pda: Lock: status = 0x4051 = ERR SEEK
READY UNC
Can anyone offer any advice, per chance? Is there any other
information I should provide?
TIA
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