Recently I tryed to install RedHat 5.2 from CD and encountered
with Subj problem. Symthoms:
1. When I'm trying to repartition disk(Fujitsu 4.3G UDMA2) and
making 3 partitions(2G,128M Swap,2G - hda1,hda2,hda3 respectively)
on reread partition table I'm getting hda1,hda2,hda4 partitions with
sizes 128M,2G,1.3T(1000G) respectively.
Even when I'm not making any partition on disk hda4 always appears
(of course it is unable to be formatted,etc.).
2. Before that I had partitions made as I wish and tryed to install
Linux several times. On first boot all ok, on second it often panics
and unable to shutdown properly, on third kernel recognizes /dev/hda1
as FAT12 and panics. e2fsck gives tonnes of errors and after full
check file system is fully trashed into lost+found.
I resolved that disabling UDMA2 in bios makes almost all ok but
after booting in a few minutes kernel resets /dev/hda and disables
DMA which slows down system perfomance. After this I can fdisk
normally and install Linux. Rebooting many times shows no errors.
Is this a known bug of Fujitsu drives or maybe it is problem other
than UDMA2. Maybe somebody helps me.
Btw, I have WD 6G hard disk which worked before as /dev/hda for a
long time with UDMA2 mode and I never had a problem with it.
After all I think that WD is the best and the only.
What do you think?
Vinche.
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