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Am 04.01.2013 09:58, schrieb Jean-Michel Barbet:
> Hello all,
> 
> We got second hand Dell PE1950s and I am trying to install SL55/64b on one
> of them.
> 
> I tried with Kickstart, then with a DVD and I get identical behaviour : The
> mk2fs command hangs at 90% at the "writing superblocks" stage.
> 
> As the machine successfully boots when I insert the harddrive of previous
> generation server, I could see what lspci reports for the SCSI controller
> :
> 
> 01:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E
> PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08)
> 
> => Has someone encountered the same problem and what can I do ?


Sounds like a bad disk.

Try another disk.

Sincerly,
Klaus


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Rechnerbetriebsgruppe / IT, Fakultät für Physik
Klaus Steinberger
FAX: +49 89 28914280
Tel: +49 89 28914287
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