mkfs.ext3 on 500GB drive

Justin Conover justin.conover at gmail.com
Sun Jun 26 22:04:52 UTC 2005


On 6/26/05, Rudi Chiarito <nutello at sweetness.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 11:00:18PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> > Well, I think your right, I plugged it into my wifes windows box and
> > ntfs failed to format it too, guess I'll be calling LaCie. I thought
> > these were supposed to be good drives.....
> 
> Ha-ha, this rings a bell. A colleague of mine had been having problems
> weeks ago with a 500GB LaCie on Windows. I think he tried another 500GB
> drive the past week and it still exhibited problems. He went back to
> a smaller LaCie drive, as those had worked smoothly in the past. As far
> as I recall, this happened with both Firewire and USB2.
> 
> Did you notice when Windows actually complained about the drive? I seem
> to remember that, when I tried to help him, formatting proceeded fine
> up to 50%, after which it slowed down and then failed. This made me think
> that there were two 250GB drives inside (the case is larger than the
> smaller drives, too), that the second drive was faulty and that the
> USB2/FW firmware wasn't handling the error in the best way. Now, based
> on his reports as well as yours, I am starting to believe that it might
> not be a drive failure, but something more fundamental...
> 
> Can you try creating a partition that takes up the first 49% of the
> disk?
> 
> --
> Rudi
> 
My guess is it would be 2 at 250 in a raid 0, I would pop it open, but I
want to send it back :)  If my raid 0 guess is correct, it wouldn't
matter doing a % since it will pull from both.




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