I converted my hdd3 on my c3100 over to ext3 recently to hopefully be gone with the fat32 problems. But now I have a whole new issue and this one seems random. Sometimes after starting up I will be missing some folders entirely and when I do an ls I get this:


The ones that are empty re the ones that give that input/output error. I just have to reboot until it works.
Any ideas what causes this? When I plug the zaurus into my linux machine to try to get to the files I get these same error messages. I tried an fsck but it reports no problem. Is there a mount option it needs or something?


EDIT: fsck on zaurus reports fine but fsck on the disk when plugged in as a usb drive gives this:


What is causing all this error?

hmm. check your partition table and ensure there's no overlap.

might need to re-do the mkfs. perhaps you changed the end of the partition and didn't remake it?

could there be a script somewhere which is trying to force a file system check for non-ext3?

have a look at "dmesg" output and just verify there's no I/O errors on the drive.

You know what? Does anyone know how the usb on-the-go driver works? When I plug it in as a hard drive does it just designate hda3 as the external drive? I am starting to wonder if the driver is hardcoded to a specific size as when I plug it into my linux machine it is reported as a "2.1 GB volume" wheras it is actually around 6 gigs in size. So maybe sense I put a larger internal drive in I just can't use the internal drive as a usb drive any more. Is it possible there is a config file for the pc link or usb connection settings?