Fedora 8 can't read parition table sata drives

[Boyd Kelly]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone might have a suggestion for this issue.  Might
it be fixed soon?  Or is it best to just do an fdisk and see if that
will work?

thanks

bk


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[mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Boyd Kelly
Sent: October 24, 2007 12:07 PM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: Fedora 8 can't read parition table sata drives

Hello,

I have recently been upgrading my kernel from fc7 to fc8.  I am able to
boot from Fedora (2.6.20-1.2949.fc7). But I cannot boot from
vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-26.fc8 or from the fedora 7.92 rescue CD.  When I boot
from the CD, it does recognize my boot drive (/dev/sdb), but not the
partitions on the drive.  I did note in the faq to put options libata
ignore_hpa=1 into my modprob.conf file, and rebuilt a new initrd, but
this did not work either.  Also when booting from the 7.92 rescue CD i
get following ominous dmesg output:

sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Scsi parity error
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device
sdb, logical block 0 Dev sdb: unable to read RDB block 0 sd 4:0:0:0:
[sdb] Attached SCSI disk


At least I can still boot under fc7, but it would be nice to move
forward.  Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks very much,

Boyd

Please note my controller, and loaded modules under the fc7 kernel.
Entire dmesg under 7.92 rescue cd is attached.

[root at workstation boot]# lspci | grep ATA 00:10.0 IDE interface: nVidia
Corporation MCP04 Serial ATA Controller (rev f2) 00:11.0 IDE interface:
nVidia Corporation MCP04 Serial ATA Controller (rev f2)


[root at workstation ~]# lsmod | grep ata
ata_generic            12101  0 
pata_amd               16845  6 
sata_nv                24005  1 
libata                112869  3 ata_generic,pata_amd,sata_nv
scsi_mod              141101  4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod