I might have to take a look at that. btw, it is slow whether clean or dirty

I'm having serious issues with an external hdd that is formatted ext3. The drive works fine with my desktop ubuntu box. If I try to create a dir:

end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 250871817
EXT3-fs error (device sda1): read_inode_bitmap: Cannot read inode bitmap - block_group = 957, inode_bitmap = 31358977
EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in ext3_new_inode: IO failure
Aborting journal on device sda1.
journal commit I/O error

I ended up wiping the drive cause i thought something else was wrong. What are we to do with this 

Anyone else?

Jae

EDIT2: I think I may have figured out the problem. This particular USB to IDE device is 14cd:6600 Super Top USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE. There was a bug in the kernel prior to 2.6.20 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/81059). So it is fixed in my x86 version of Ubuntu, but perhaps the fix never made it into the ARM port? I verified the error occurs with the stock SheevaPlug kernel 2.6.28, so it is not related to this kernel.

Ordered: 4/10/2009 (CC charged right away)
Received: 5/16/2009

Cheers,

Jae

When booting the sheeva hangs for about 15-20 seconds while it is booting, then prints:

VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) on device 31:1.

Is jffs2 that slow to mount? Any tips to improve this?

Thanks,

Jae

Just installed the rc6 kernel and got this error, is this something i should just delete with the new kernel?

fat: version magic '2.6.22.18 mod_unload ARMv5 ' should be '2.6.30-rc6 preempt mod_unload ARMv5 '
insmod: error inserting '/boot/fat.ko': -1 Invalid module format

EDIT: Nevermind, I forgot to change the /etc/rc.local file after latest ubuntu blast!

Thanks,
Jae

I'm pretty sure you have to use the mac address with periods not colons or the env won't take.

ie

00.50.43.4c.02.26

instead of:

00:50:43:4c:02:26

I can confirm that with u-boot-rd88f6281Sheevaplug_400db_nand.bin I was unable to use any of my USB thumb drives 256MB, 1GB, 4GB in either ext2/ext3 or fat32 and successfully boot the flashware.img.

However as soon as i formatted one of them to fat16 (even though the filenames were truncated in the mount), uBoot loaded the image fine.

So I now have recovered my SheevaPlug after being hit with the "unable to login" issue.

Jae