Problems with removable IDE in 1.3.97

Matthew J Brown (mjb@sophos.com)
Wed, 1 May 1996 15:10:31 +0100

I have a machine with a SyQuest 270Mb IDE cartridge drive as /dev/hdb.
Under 1.2.x and earlier 1.3 releases it works fine, but under 1.3.97
(and 1.3.90, and maybe earlier) I have problems. If I make it into
one big ext2 partition and mke2fs it, and then run e2fsck on it, I get
the following errors:

arda:/# e2fsck -f /dev/hdb1
e2fsck 0.5b, 14-Feb-95 for EXT2 FS 0.5a, 95/03/19
hdb: hdb1
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
hdb: read_intr: status=0x5b { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Index Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, CHS=352/1/20, sector=180243
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41, sector 180243

and many repeats of similar errors from all over the place, sometimes
with the error being error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }.

This happens every time I do this (though the sectors it happens on
and the order of the error messages varies).

Any idea what this is, or anything further I can do to track this
down?

-Matt