Hi, i got the same problem here:
First of all the output of vgscan -vvv (right before the first other vgscan in /etc/init.d/lvm). Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "data" using metadata type lvm2 I got a IHC7 board with two SATA disks and one PATA disk. All in enhanced mode with debian testing. hda7 is VG data sda is VG backup sdb is VG archive ata_piix is loaded in /etc/modules. libata, scsi_mod und sd_mod from ata_piix over the dependencies. When booting VG data is found with /etc/init.d/lvm, VG backup and archive not. If i run /etc/init.d/lvm after /etc/init.d/discover (which runs discover-modules) it works. There are the same modules loaded before and after the first /etc/init.d/lvm (while booting). It seems that discover-modules does something special with sd_mod since there is an extra note (scsi sd_mod: loaded sucsessfully) when (re?)loading sd_mod. Putting sd_mod into /etc/modules doesnt help. I can do some extra tests and i will check if makeing a partition on sdb with the VG inside of it helps. -- + IM? => http://rusch.name/ +
