[MiNT] Re[2]: ext2 8GB ??

[George Nakos <ggn@hol.gr>]

Hello Alan,

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 8:00:47 PM, you wrote:


> 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.

> Anyway, the ext2 code is performing well with gcc 4.2.3

> Alan.

Yikes! Nasty! Seems that either the card has some hardware bugs, or is not
implementing the scsi protocol as it should. That's a shame.

I got a Yamaha scsi->ide converter which is the "Yamaha V769970" and it works
with a CF on my TT fine so far. Never tested ext2 though.



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 George                            mailto:ggn@hol.gr