RHEL AS 3.0 Update 3 Install On Asus Tua266 and Maxtor 160 GB Problems

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Date: 11/20/04

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    Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:05:55 -0500

    Installing as above, had to first update my bios on the tua266 as my Award
    1002 BIOS only saw the 160 GB disk as 8 GB; downloaded and applied latest
    Beta Bios 1004.010 which asus reports as breaking the 137 GB barrier thing;
    bios now sees the whole 160 GB

    Install goes fine; created following partitions:

    /boot 100 MB
    /home 20 GB
    / 10 GB
    swap 1280 MB (640 MB ram installed)
    /oracle 125 GB (this is in extended partition, i believe)

    System seems to run fine until I copy in about 24 GB of data into /oracle,
    then the problems begin.
    After rebooting the file system is completely trashed !! giving messages
    that the file systems are not cleaned, and advising to run manual fsck;
    when doing so, all these inodes are corrupt

    Have tried this many times, last attempt it came up checking the file
    systems and gave a kernel panic error and the system halted :-(

    It seems to me that either the motherboard doesn't like the big disk or
    REDHAT AS 3.0 doesn't like the partitions.

    FYI....the same motherboard had no problems with a 100 GB disk.....and the
    160 GB Maxtor worked without incident under windows on an Asus CUV4X-D

    Any suggestions would be appreciated !!

    Scott

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