[gentoo-user] 300GB Hard drive& kernel 2.4.28

[gentoo-user] 300GB Hard drive& kernel 2.4.28

[Chris Bruyere]

Hi All. First post. Sorry if manners not proper.

My server has a 2.4.28 kernel and I would like to
install a 300GB hard drive. 

I can 'see' it in BIOS and can fdisk it, but when I
mount it, I get an error message like:
"can't mount /dev/hdd2 bad superblock ...." (Exact
error message can be posted if req'd).

It is possible to use this HD w/out a Ultra ATA 133
PCI card?

thanks!
Chris


	

	
		
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Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB Hard drive& kernel 2.4.28

[Catalin Trifu]

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       Hi,

    Did you partioned and created the filesystems on the hdd ?
    if not there is nothing to mount.

Catalin


Chris Bruyere wrote:

>Hi All. First post. Sorry if manners not proper.
>
>My server has a 2.4.28 kernel and I would like to
>install a 300GB hard drive. 
>
>I can 'see' it in BIOS and can fdisk it, but when I
>mount it, I get an error message like:
>"can't mount /dev/hdd2 bad superblock ...." (Exact
>error message can be posted if req'd).
>
>It is possible to use this HD w/out a Ultra ATA 133
>PCI card?
>
>thanks!
>Chris
>
>
>	
>
>	
>		
>__________________________________________________________ 
>Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca
>  
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB Hard drive& kernel 2.4.28

[Chris Bruyere]

--- Catalin Trifu <catalin@isp-software.de> wrote:

>        Hi,
> 
>     Did you partioned and created the filesystems on
> the hdd ?
>     if not there is nothing to mount.
> 
> Catalin
> 

yes


	

	
		
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Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB Hard drive& kernel 2.4.28

[Willie Wong]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 04:28:57PM -0500, Chris Bruyere wrote:
> My server has a 2.4.28 kernel and I would like to
> install a 300GB hard drive. 
> 
> I can 'see' it in BIOS and can fdisk it, but when I
> mount it, I get an error message like:
> "can't mount /dev/hdd2 bad superblock ...." (Exact
> error message can be posted if req'd).
> 
> It is possible to use this HD w/out a Ultra ATA 133
> PCI card?
> 

Yes. Make sure your kernel has the LBA48 patch (I can't imagine why it
shouldn't... even 2.2.26 has it...)

For the record, I have a 160G harddrive which the manufacturer said
won't work without a Ultra ATA 133 card--it works just fine without in
my box. 

So your error is most likely something else. Perhaps post exact error
message?

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