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RHEL AS 3.0 Update 3 Install On Asus Tua266 and Maxtor 160 GB Problems
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| news.quickclic.net 2004-11-20, 8:12 am |
| Installing as above, had to first update my bios on the tua266 as my Award
1002 BIOS only saw the 160 GB disk as 8 GB; downloaded and applied latest
Beta Bios 1004.010 which asus reports as breaking the 137 GB barrier thing;
bios now sees the whole 160 GB
Install goes fine; created following partitions:
/boot 100 MB
/home 20 GB
/ 10 GB
swap 1280 MB (640 MB ram installed)
/oracle 125 GB (this is in extended partition, i believe)
System seems to run fine until I copy in about 24 GB of data into /oracle,
then the problems begin.
After rebooting the file system is completely trashed !! giving messages
that the file systems are not cleaned, and advising to run manual fsck;
when doing so, all these inodes are corrupt
Have tried this many times, last attempt it came up checking the file
systems and gave a kernel panic error and the system halted :-(
It seems to me that either the motherboard doesn't like the big disk or
REDHAT AS 3.0 doesn't like the partitions.
FYI....the same motherboard had no problems with a 100 GB disk.....and the
160 GB Maxtor worked without incident under windows on an Asus CUV4X-D
Any suggestions would be appreciated !!
Scott
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| news.quickclic.net 2004-11-20, 5:49 pm |
| Also found that if I try using a partition of around 155 GB, i get a message
saying invalid handle or something like that when it goes to format this 155
GB partition.
Is there a partition limitation in RHEL AS 3.0 ?
Thanks.
"news.quickclic.net" <seccles@quickclic.net> wrote in message
news:mLKdnVYSEp_WwALcRVn-tw@edaptivity.com...
> Installing as above, had to first update my bios on the tua266 as my Award
> 1002 BIOS only saw the 160 GB disk as 8 GB; downloaded and applied latest
> Beta Bios 1004.010 which asus reports as breaking the 137 GB barrier
thing;
> bios now sees the whole 160 GB
>
> Install goes fine; created following partitions:
>
> /boot 100 MB
> /home 20 GB
> / 10 GB
> swap 1280 MB (640 MB ram installed)
> /oracle 125 GB (this is in extended partition, i believe)
>
>
> System seems to run fine until I copy in about 24 GB of data into /oracle,
> then the problems begin.
> After rebooting the file system is completely trashed !! giving messages
> that the file systems are not cleaned, and advising to run manual fsck;
> when doing so, all these inodes are corrupt
>
> Have tried this many times, last attempt it came up checking the file
> systems and gave a kernel panic error and the system halted :-(
>
> It seems to me that either the motherboard doesn't like the big disk or
> REDHAT AS 3.0 doesn't like the partitions.
>
> FYI....the same motherboard had no problems with a 100 GB disk.....and the
> 160 GB Maxtor worked without incident under windows on an Asus CUV4X-D
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated !!
>
> Scott
>
>
>
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| AnonymousFC3 2004-11-20, 5:49 pm |
| Scott
a few suggestions:
1) In your BIOS, DO NOT use a CHS (cylinder/head/sectors) scheme, for the
disk, rather uses LBA mode (Logical Block Adresses, inherited from SCSI).
This allow a much more simpler disk access, and initila size ISA somewht
irrelevant (excepted number of bits in the the LBA number).
Normally you do not need a new BIOS with LBA... but often new BIOSES have
issues which makes it worthwile re-flashing.
And Asus is very good at this.
2) When you install Linux, Yes I suggest you reinstall Linux, or at least
your large /oracle partition, then use xfs for the file system.
How: at the boot prompt just type : linux xfs
And later format partitions as xfs.
for the /boot partition or all other small partition you may justy use ext3
(that I did), mostly because xfs is not yet widely supported (comming),
with bootable Linux CD (like Knoppix) , which are quite nice to fix
problems, or just do system maintenance.
There may be native support for xfs in the FC3 (before you reinstall with
xfs), but I am unsure of this.
If there is, then just delete and reformat the /oracle partition as an xfs
and try again.
XFS was develloped by SGI (Silicon Graphics Incorporated), and is mostly
regarded as both the most solid, and best file system for very large drive.
Please post here your feedback when you are done, so everyone can benefit
from your experience.
AnonymousFC3
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news.quickclic.net wrote:
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> Also found that if I try using a partition of around 155 GB, i get a
> message saying invalid handle or something like that when it goes to
> format this 155 GB partition.
>
> Is there a partition limitation in RHEL AS 3.0 ?
>
> Thanks.
> "news.quickclic.net" <seccles@quickclic.net> wrote in message
> news:mLKdnVYSEp_WwALcRVn-tw@edaptivity.com...
> thing;
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