<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">Hi gurus!</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">Booting my Fedora 5 (2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) system takes an extra couple of minutes because of disk errors. The system is trying to “do something” with a partition on a drive that is part of a raid set, and failing. These errors occur during the initrd boot phase. After the system boot, the system is apparently ok. </FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">When I boot Linux, I get several screens worth of the following error</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Buffer I/O error on device hde1, logical block 625153152</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">hde is part of a 2 disk striped raid set. I can stop the errors if I add “hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe” as a kernel boot parameter, but then I cannot use dmraid to access my raid partition, because /dev/hde & /dev/hde don’t exist. I tried adding boot parameter “hde=19457,255,63“ but the device remains invisible.</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">My naive guess is that I can solve my problem by either </FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">1) Getting dmraid to see my drives after a boot that uses “noprobe”</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">2) Stopping whatever program is trying to access hde1 during the initrd boot.</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">All my attempts at 1) have failed, and I have no idea how to do 2).</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></o:p></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">My System has</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An Abit AN7 nforce chipset motherboard with </FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </SPAN>2 ATA onboard channels</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>onboard Si3112 SATA Raid ( I use SATA, but not the SATA raid)</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>A SiI0680 (CMD 680) pci ATA card</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT face="Courier New"> </FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">The drive layout is </FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>hda onboard ata [hda1=/boot ,ext3 : hda2=unmounted, ntfs]</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>hdc onboard ata [ hdc1= /, ext3 : hdc2=swap : hdc3=/var, ext3]</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">**<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>hde SiI0680 striped raid set 1</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>hdf SiI0680 [ hdf1=unmounted, ntfs ]</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">**<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>hdg SiI0680 striped raid set 1</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>sda onboard SATA [sda1=unmounted, ntfs]</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">**<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>dm-0 raid 1[dm-0p1=unmounted, ntfs] </FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">Thanks!</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New">Charlweed</FONT></P> <P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>