I just added a third hard drive to my system so I can migrate to a
larger drive.
I created three partitions, two ext3, one swap, and formatted them.
Copied the data to the drives, changed the labels on both the old
partitions and the new ones, and rebooted.
The system at boot time mounts the first partition and swap, then
chokes on the third one. The error (sorry, I didn't write it down) was
something like "Physical drive has 120000 sectors but the partition
table shows 12000000. Bad partition table? Run fsck manually." After
booting (took a CTRL-D) I ran fsck, comes up clean. I tried to mount
it, mounted fine.
Here's the output of fdisk for that drive. The partition that won't
mount is hdc3.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdc: 10.0 GB, 10000000000 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2422 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 1200 4838368+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 1201 1325 504000 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdc3 1326 2422 4423104 83 Linux
Here's the boot messages from /var/log/messages:
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hda: 4999680 sectors (2560 MB) w/128KiB
Cache, CHS=620/128/63
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hdb: host protected area => 1
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hdb: 8421840 sectors (4312 MB) w/256KiB
Cache, CHS=524/255/63, UDMA(33)
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hdc: host protected area => 1
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hdc: 19531250 sectors (10000 MB)
w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19376/16/63, UDMA(33)
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: Partition check:
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
Jun 6 21:32:24 system3 kernel: hdc: [PTBL] [2422/128/63] hdc1 hdc2
hdc3
Hmmm... Possibly a driver in my initrd that doesn't understand 10 Gb
disks and/or LBA?
Thanx!
-Michael
