mkfs.ext3 on 500GB drive

[Justin Conover]

On 6/25/05, Peter Arremann <loony at loonybin.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 25 June 2005 19:27, Justin Conover wrote:
> > I have a LaCie 500GB/firewire drive, and I've been at this thing all
> > day.
> > $ dmesg | tail
> > sda: Current: sense key: No Sense
> >     Additional sense: No additional sense information
> > sda: Current: sense key: No Sense
> >     Additional sense: No additional sense information
> > sda: Current: sense key: No Sense
> >     Additional sense: No additional sense information
> > sda: Current: sense key: No Sense
> >     Additional sense: No additional sense information
> > sda: Current: sense key: No Sense
> >     Additional sense: No additional sense information
> >
> > I assume this is going to suck and explode too.
> Hmmm - that doesn't look good. its either a firewire transport issue or an
> issue with the drive itsself in my opinion. What kind of firewire controller
> do you have? lspci and boot messages would help a lot too.
> 
 lspci -v | grep 1394
03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems (former Lucent
Microelectronics) FW323 (rev 61) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])


> > Anyone have any tips what-so-ever for formating a LARGE slice?  This
> > was supposed to backup my raid5 server but so far, I can't even use it
> > and it took me long enough to get Fedora to see it.  Or I can give up,
> > hand it to my wife, format it with ntfs and let her use it directly to
> > backup her photo work. (really really don't want to do that)
> We're doing it on a regular basis - 400GB to 1TB is the normal size for where
> I work. No issues.
> 
> Peter.
> 
What do you format a large drive with, just plain mkfs.ext3 /dev/X or
do you specifiy inodes or anything else?


# dmesg | tail
lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
sda: Current: sense key: No Sense
    Additional sense: No additional sense information
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
scsi0 : destination target 0, lun 0
        command: Write (10): 2a 00 38 67 a5 d7 00 00 10 00
SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x50000
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 946316759
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 118289587
lost page write due to I/O error on sda1


The firewire interface further up is a pcmcia card on my laptop, I
have also tried it on another box with the same results

# lspci -v | grep 1394
02:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 46) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

And my server currently has

# lspci -v | grep 1394
00:11.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
(rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

I put the card in my server because I didn't have any other firewire
sitting around.  I was thinking of getting one of the following:

FireWire 800 (1394b) 3 Port, 32-bit PCI Host Adapter With Deluxe DV
Editing Software and 1394 DV Cable
Manufacturer: SIIG
Mfg Part #: NN-831012
Product Number: 50320715

or 

3 Port FireWire 800 PCI Card
Manufacturer: LaCie    
Mfg Part #: 107755
Product Number: 50280126