Drives will not format...

[dragoran]

Brian Rademacher wrote:

> System is an Abit SU-2S, dual Opteron 246, 2 gigs ECC, 2 Maxtor 300 
> gig SATA-II drives, Marvell 88SX-6081 SATA II controller...
>
> I can get each drive to format on it's own and install, but when both 
> are connected, formatting in software RAID 0, or even leaving it as 
> the default "automatic" partitions results in:
>
> Writing inode tables 980/4454 (then it stops)
>
> Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks...Anaconda dies shortly 
> thereafter saying that it can't continue...
>
> Then the drives go off line, and "Rejecting I/O to offline device" 
> shows up in dmesg...
>
> I've taken out RAM, passed every kernel parameter I can think of 
> before the install, wiped out the HDs with DD, etc...

looks like a bug fill it ...