KHATUKA%ROSEVC.Rose-Hulman.Edu@uicvm.uic.edu (Aditya Khatuka) (12/23/90)
Hi,
I was trying to install minix 1.5 that I got from PH on Zenith
8088 ,8Mz (ZF-158-42) PC with Seagate ST-251 (42 MB).
Using fdisk -h6 -s17 /dev/hd0, I partioned the drive as below:
----first- ---last----- ----sectors-------
Num Sorted Active Type Cyl Head Sec Cyl Head Sec Base Last Size
1 1 A min 0 0 2 224 5 16 1+ 22948 22948
2 2 min 225 0 1 450 5 17 22950 46001 23052
3 3 min 451 0 1 702 5 17 46002 71705 25704
4 4 dos-12 703 0 1 818 5 17 71706 83573 11832
After writing this and rebooting the system, when I am trying to make
filesystem (from root), using mkfs /dev/hd1 11470, my problem starts.
The error message that i am gettng are as below:
Unrecoverable write error on device 3/1, block 11469
Unrecoverable disk error on device 3/1, block 11469
Error: File system is too big for minor device
Line 1 being processes when error detected.
I have tried this with various partition size and on all partition, but
the error message remains same except for the numerical values.
Once when I used (wth above fdisk table) mkfs /dev/hd1 3000, the file
system succeded, but am I not loosing a lot of disk space with this.
Can anyone suggest where I went wrong and how to rectify it.
thanks
aditya
Khatuka@rosevc.rose-hulman.eduKHATUKA%ROSEVC.Rose-Hulman.Edu@uicvm.uic.edu (Aditya Khatuka) (01/08/91)
Hi,
I am reposting my last problem with few more problems. Due to some
problem with our Bitnet site, I could not get any of the Minix-l postings for
over 2 weeks, which means all the suggestions are lost/on meg tape somewhere. I
however got a mail from Alan Bleasby (thanks) suggesting that I use -t option
when using mkfs.
I used the -t option and it did solve few of the problems. The latest
problems are at the end of this mail.
*** from earlier mail****
I was trying to install minix 1.5 that I got from PH on Zenith
8088 ,8Mz (ZF-158-42) PC with Seagate ST-251 (42 MB).
Using fdisk -h6 -s17 /dev/hd0, I partioned the drive as below:
----first- ---last----- ----sectors-------
Num Sorted Active Type Cyl Head Sec Cyl Head Sec Base Last Size
1 1 A min 0 0 2 224 5 16 1+ 22948 22948
2 2 min 225 0 1 450 5 17 22950 46001 23052
3 3 min 451 0 1 702 5 17 46002 71705 25704
4 4 dos-12 703 0 1 818 5 17 71706 83573 11832
After writing this and rebooting the system, when I am trying to make
filesystem (from root), using mkfs /dev/hd1 11470, my problem starts.
The error message that i am gettng are as below:
Unrecoverable write error on device 3/1, block 11469
Unrecoverable disk error on device 3/1, block 11469
Error: File system is too big for minor device
Line 1 being processes when error detected.
I have tried this with various partition size and on all partition, but
the error message remains same except for the numerical values.
Once when I used (wth above fdisk table) mkfs /dev/hd1 3000, the file
system succeded, but am I not loosing a lot of disk space with this.
****end of last mail*****
Modification made since last mail:
1) Used mkfs -t /dev/hd2
2) Tried various sizes of partition
3) Minix partitions are no longer active
4) Change Dos-12 to Dos-big
Problems:
mkfs -t /dev/hd2 xxxxx always give the following error message (it always hd2
no matter what its size)
Unrecoverable write error on device 3/2, block xxx (xxx starts from 1
and goes on to anything between 100 and 300)
Unrecoverable disk error on device 3/2, block 2 (usually)
Error: get_block couldn't read
Line 1 being processed when error detected.
Further, when I am using readall -b /dev/hd1 >bad.1 after few thousand blocks,
it gives the following error :
Unrecoverable disk error on device 3/1, block xxxxx
Using cat bad.1, the contents of the file are as below:
4096 bad blocks is too many. Exiting
Making the complete disk an MS-Dos drive and formating it/using chkdsk,
I don't get even a single bad block. I got this drive recently and it is still
in 30 day warrenty.
Can anyone suggest where I went wrong and how to rectify it.
thanks
aditya
Khatuka@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu