lacie "big disk and rh 7.3

[chuck lawrence]

please forgive me in advance if this has been discussed already...

I've got a pair of dual amd opteron systems (2.4.20-24.7smp kernel) that 
I love dearly.  they're running rh 7.3.  I've just added a lacie 500gb 
"big disk" using firewire (400?).  I've made it one huge partition 
w/fdisk, and I do "modprobe ohci1394" before mounting it.

so far, so good.  it mounts just fine, but more or less randomly while 
exercising the disk w/multiple large writes, the whole system freezes.

in addition, just now, it reported "No space left on device" when, in 
fact, only 4% of the disk was used.  this seems to happen somewhere 
between 7 and 8gb in any given dir.  starting again in a different dir 
allows me to continue writing.  maybe this is some sort of quota?

this is my first firewire excursion w/any os.  any thoughts or 
experience out there?

adv<thanks>ance


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