mkfs.ext3 on 500GB drive

[dominik.schastok at t-online.de]

After all I heard, this has to be an hardware error, maybe the internal
controller isn´t working correctly.
I formated a 600GB raid5 array (software raid) on my fc4 box yesterday
without any problems.

kind regards
Dominik Schastok

>On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:36, Horst von Brand wrote:
>> I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head
assembly
>> and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar
make and
>> performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just
larger
>> platters (thus larger casing).
>I think you're missing the scope of what LaCie does... :-)
>They do not manufacture harddisks, they make external enclosures using
>standard disk drives - Last I heard they were using mostly WD...
>To offer large capacities (their enclosures go up to 2TB) they use an
internal
>controller and several smaller harddisks.
>
>Peter.
>
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