Very Computer

Hi,

My new 250G IDE drive just arrived.  And, first steps looked pretty
good: controller found it, SuSE YaST was able to configure the drive
as one single primary partition using the full disk size and format it
using ext2.  Just when I try to mount it, I happen to get this error:

servername# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdg1 /mountpoint
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdg1
       or too many mounted file systems

As soon as I configure partitions below 128G, those work fine and can
be mounted without any hassle - just, that's not the solution I am
seeking for.  The system is a Celeron-733 on an Asus TUSL2-C, the
drive is connected to the second ide port of a Promise Ultra-100 TX2
PCI controller.  OS is SuSE 7.3 running kernel 2.4.10

I could now split the drive in more partitions than one - but if
anyhow possible without hardware investments I'd like to use the drive
as a single, big partition.  If a new Promise would *definitely* help,
that'd also be a good solution.

Any ideas?

Cheers
Martin

 >

Quote:> You should talk to the guy with the 200GB hard drive.  This group, subject
> "200GB hdd, promise ata/100".

Yep, I've seen it.  That last posting of mine was done via Google with >
5 hours delay ;-)  I'll continue in that thread.
Thx.
Martin