[linux-lvm] Can someone _please_ tell me whats going on?

[Bradley Alexander]

Hi all,

I posted last month (Please see message
<20011111194145.A715 at sonsofthunder.yi.org>,
<20011112141948.P715 at sonsofthunder.yi.org> regarding problems i was
having with lvm. I am working with a 1GHz Athlon machine, with 2 30GB
hard drives. One of the problems that I was seeing seek errors on the
hard drive. Everyone who responded mentioned that it was hardware
problems. 

Well, I took that Quantum drive out and put an almost brand new Maxtor
(I took great pleasure in whacking windows on it) identical to my first
drive (Maxtor Maxtor 53073U6). I did the pvcreate, vgcreate and
lvcreate, followed by mkreiserfs. When I rebooted, again, I saw 

hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=211681280,
sector=0
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=211681280,
sector=0
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=211681280,
sector=0
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=211681280,
sector=0
hdc: DMA disabled
hdd: DMA disabled
ide1: reset: success
hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
}
hdc: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=211681280,
sector=0
hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
}
hdc: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=211681280,
sector=0
hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
}

I know for a fact that this drive is good, as was the Quantum. However,
the Quantum has since stopped working. Obviously it is not a hardware
issue. Can someone please tell me why whenever I try to turn a second
drive into a logical volume, I get drive errors?

I would appreciate any suggestions on why this is happening and how to
fix it.


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--Brad
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Bradley M. Alexander, CISSP              |   Co-Chairman,
Beowulf System Admin/Security Specialist |    NoVALUG/DCLUG Security SIG
Debian/GNU Linux Developer		 |   storm [at] debian.org
                                         |   storm [at] tux.org
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