mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
> > Assuming that some garbage was left on the disk event after mke2fs,
> > i did "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd1 bs=512", which cured the problem,
> > after being followed by mke2fs.
>
> mke2fs from older versions of e2fsprogs didn't clear out all the
> filesystem and md signatures on a new filesystem.
>
> The right way to avoid this is to tell the kernel to mount the fs as
> ext2 or ext3 explicitly, not to rely on the fs-type autodetection in
> mount().
This works, too. Anyway, not an issue anymore
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