[ILUG] fsck problem

[Pat Martin]

Roger,

You might try disabling DMA on your harddrive on the offending drive via
hdparm.
Prior to the fsck, try setting hdparm.

hdparm -X34 -d1 <offending device>

Hope this helps.

- Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Irwin" <rog at powerup.com.au>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 6:53 PM
Subject: [ILUG] fsck problem


> I have just upgraded my system from Slackware 7 to 8 and all went well bar
> one small problem. When I went to reboot my system it gets stuck on fsck.
> I have left it for 6 hours and it still keeps going and my Harddrive isn't
> that big. I have mannaged to get my system up by putting a # in the
> /etc/rc.d/rc.S where it loads:
>
> fsck -A -a
>
> I can see that fsck hasn't hang by running it when the system is booted.
> Top reports it uses 98% CPU and it seams to be working fine.
> I know that I shouldn't run my system like this but not sure what to do.
> Can anyone please help?
>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
>
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