Hi! i recently aquired an old Sun Enterprise 150 with one internal 2GB HDD and 12 HDDs in the Machines "drive bay".
I managed to get woody installed on the system drive and my plan was to split the remaining 12 2gig drives into two raid arrays with 5 data drives and one spare. This works fine (i can create the arrays, create a filesystem and put stuff onto the system) as long as I don't reboot the machine. As soon as it gets rebooted, it "looses" some partition tables. This is what the bootlog shows: esp1: target 5 [period 100ns offset 15 20.00MHz FAST-WIDE SCSI-II] SCSI device sde: 4194995 512-byte hdwr sectors (2148 MB) sde: unknown partition table esp1: target 8 [period 100ns offset 15 20.00MHz FAST-WIDE SCSI-II] SCSI device sdf: 4194995 512-byte hdwr sectors (2148 MB) sdf: sdf1 sdf3 And fdisk /dev/sde now tells me that "Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel" and i have to reconfigure the drive in fdisk, delete the linux and swap partitions that the new disklabel created and create my new raid partition. A "working" partition table looks like this: Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 80 sectors, 2733 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1520 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 0 2733 2077080 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb3 0 2733 2077080 5 Whole disk After "repairing" the partition tables i can revive the raid array again but only until the machine gets rebooted. I tried the stock debian 2.4.18 kernel first and after that compiled my own 2.4.18 kernel. The problem persists. I googled around for a while and tried doing things over and over again which did not really help. I'm lost now. Can anybody help? The machine has two scsi controllers. One with the cdrom and system drive connected (FAS100A) and the other one with the 12 drives connected (Happy Meal FAS). Could it be a hardware problem? -- mfg sven lankes | quidquid latine dictum sit, megabit informationstechnik | profundum viditur
