On Mon, Jul 23 2001, David Johnson wrote:
> When attempting to create an ext2 partition on a dvd-ram (2.6G/5.2G) 
> media the number of blocks is detected wrong causing only half of the 
> disk to be usable.  When creating the filesystem with mke2fs only 
> 609480 2K blocks are allowed instead of 1218960 2K blocks, and I end 
> up with a 1.2GB partition instead of 2.4GB one.  The 1.2GB fs works 
> fine, it's just a bit small :(
> 
> This is with 2.4.7 using a Creative DVD-RAM drive (1216S) on an Adaptec 
> 2940UW.
> 
> The correct number of blocks is detected in 2.4.6

Does this work?

-- 
Jens Axboe