[SD4L-user] mkfs hangs when creating large container from HD partition

[Jonathan C. <jco...@ro...>]

I have tried several times to create a Scramdisk container on a hard 
drive partition (about 24Gb). After several minutes of mouse waggling, 
Scramdisk begins encrypting and formatting the partition. This continues 
until the progress bar is near 100%. Then, the Scramdisk application 
becomes unresponsive. If you cover it with another window and then give 
it the focus again, Scramdisk does not restore its window. Running "ps 
ax" reveals that mkfs and Scramdisk are still running, but are asleep.

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 with kernel 2.6.24-19 and ScramDisk 1.3.0. 
Admittedly, this one was built for kernel 2.6.24-18, but container 
creation on flash memory cards and as .svl files works as it should.

Thanks.