Hello...
I have quite an old system... 486DX4 100 w 32MB RAM
and the HDD is an 815MB Seagate from '96 or '97, don't remember exactly.
My problem is that when I try mke2fs I wait several hours and nothing, I
think it hangs or something like this(once I left it over night, hoping maybe
maybe hehe, in vain)
I tried this with slackware 8 and redhat 6.2, both the very same thing.
I can format this hdd under DOS(boot disk only) and it's no problem.
Also, this HDD has some 40KB of bads and the BIOS doesn't know of low level format
Any idea how to make it happen(make mke2fs work)
PS: Linux found the hdd and I can partition it both with fdisk and disk druid.
I have quite an old system... 486DX4 100 w 32MB RAM
and the HDD is an 815MB Seagate from '96 or '97, don't remember exactly.
My problem is that when I try mke2fs I wait several hours and nothing, I
think it hangs or something like this(once I left it over night, hoping maybe
maybe hehe, in vain)
I tried this with slackware 8 and redhat 6.2, both the very same thing.
I can format this hdd under DOS(boot disk only) and it's no problem.
Also, this HDD has some 40KB of bads and the BIOS doesn't know of low level format
Any idea how to make it happen(make mke2fs work)
PS: Linux found the hdd and I can partition it both with fdisk and disk druid.