Re: [MiNT] ext2 8GB ??

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:56 -0400, Roger Burrows wrote:
> Hi Alan
> On 15 May 2008 at 18:00, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > 
> > Ugh, and the fix was ....
> > 
> > Well, I've got a new IDE drive with an ACARD 7720u SCSI->IDE bridge that
> > was hooked up to the SCSI chain. The drive appears to work fine with
> > GEM, but as soon as you use ext2 on it, then I get bad filesystem
> > corruptions. 
> > 
> > I've now plugged the same IDE disk into the real IDE port and it's fine.
> > 
> > Funny thing is, that I have two of these 7720u bridges and they both
> > give the same problems.
> > 
> 
> I have some 7720 bridges that I've used for testing and for installing DVD 
> writers on my TT.  I've not seen that problem, but I'm not sure if I ever used 
> an ext2 filesystem with them [I did have a 137GB FAT32 drive on the SCSI port 
> for a few days though].  What firmware level are the bridges at?  When I've 
> finished reorganising my gear (moving it all to the same (large) room), I'll 
> see if I can reproduce your problem.

I'm at firmware 3.88 which is the latest from the website as far as I
can tell.

Alan.