[Gloucs] Re: [OxLUG] Eeeek -help with e2fsck please

[Richard Mellersh]

Dave Addison wrote:

> In message <3EC605B8.15196CE0@the-sett.nildram.co.uk>, Richard Mellersh
> <Richard@the-sett.nildram.co.uk> writes
> >Hi,
> >After rearanging some hardware, I just used the ex-boot disk (a SCSI 2GB
> >Quantum haning from an NCR 83...controller)
> >in another system as the third SCSI drive (now on a aha1542) it is not
> >at the end of the chain, it is not terminated, it is id 3
> >and it is reported correctly by the SCSI BIOS on reboot.
> >
> >I started the system in mode 3 modprobed the aha1542 as usual and
> >fdisked it, removing all the partitions (swap included) I created a
> >single partion ext2 and w'ed out of fdisk.  I then did "mkfs -t ext2
> >/dev/sdc" and restarted the system.
> >
> >I re-ran modprobe ans as soon as I tried to acces the drive with "mount
> >-a" (already prepared fstab) it hung.  I tried this several times with a
> >variety of commands: all requiring a hard reset to get the system back
> >(no amount of "killing" would
> >work).
> >
> >So now I have tried "e2fsck -cvf /dev/sdc1" - that was at 16:00 Friday -
> >it is now 10:40 Saturday and it's STILL GOING
> >reporting -
> >
> >"Checking for bad blocks (read-only test):        _
> >42144            514072"
> >
> >Surely it can't take this long?  It's only about 22 percent through?
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Richard Mellersh
> >
> >
> >
> If you look at the dmesg output on another console is it reporting SCSI
> bus problems?
> --
> Dave Addison
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Yes masses.  I've abandoned it now, disconnected the two good drives and I'll
start over on
sdc1
Any help would be useful?
RM