A friend of mine is trying to use a scsi Jaz drive under linux and is having
difficulties formatting the drives. Suggestions are most welcome.
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>[root@greenland:/]# mke2fs /dev/sdb1
>mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
>Linux ext2 filesystem format
>Filesystem label=
>489472 inodes, 1951866 blocks
>97593 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
>First data block=1
>Block size=1024 (log=0)
>Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
>239 block groups
>8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
>2048 inodes per group
>Superblock backups stored on blocks:
>         [ ... ]
>Writing inode tables: 119/239
>
>scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:11, sector #########
>scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0, CDB: Write (6) 05 c1 ad 92 00
>Current error sd08:11: sense key Medium Error
>Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error
>
>Last 4 lines repeat endlessly w/ the Sector number changing and the Hex address
>changing. the other portions of the last 4 lines remains the same. Any Ideas?
>this is w/ a disk purchased at Best Buy. The system locks up--can't do a reboot
>or a Ctrl-Alt-Del or anything (can use the reset button, tho)
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