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Okay. As you may or may not know, I have a used Sparc 1+ that I am trying
to get up and running so I can do Various Neat Things(tm) with it.
I have a Seagate 32155N (Hawk 2XL... Ultra-SCSI... 2gb) that I'm trying to
use with it. I plug it in, fdisk it via S/Linux, no problem...
I try mke2fs... now, so far I've only tried
this on the 400mb partition (/dev/sda1... it will someday be the root fs).
It wants to make 50 inode tables... fine. It writes out the first 25
quickly, then slows down to almost a dead halt at 30. I normally cancel
the whole thing in disgust... it shouldn't take 30 to an hour to mkfs a
400mb partition.
I haven't even attempted to try it on the 1gb /dev/sda4 (future /usr)
partition.
I have tried turning parity on and off on the drive... I have tried
several different hard drive parameters in the disklabel creation... no
difference.
Help?
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Ed Powell -- Unix Contractor from Hell(tm)
http://www.visi.com/~epowell Finger for PGP public key
"When SysAdmins Attack!" This Sunday, on Fox.
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