On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:41 +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > I did not dare play with fdisk, any idea on what to try to recover 36GB? > The disk reference: Seagate Cheetah 73LP 36GB 10K U160 80pin SCA-2 SCSI > Hard Drive ST336605LC. > > I then dist-upgraded to lenny but at reboot it looks like > when detecting the network the machine froze, just like the lenny > installer did. Garbled in the serial console I believe I saw > a kernel panic backtrace scrolling. My guess is that the > lenny kernel driver for the ethernet card has some issue > the etch kernel driver didn't have.
Given I have the same hardware very likely this patch fixed the issue: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1030677 I'm willing to test if a new netinstall image is around. > So back to reinstalling etch for me. When reinstalling etch the 6GB disk issue was gone and I got my full 36 GB. Go figure but now all works :). Sincerely, Laurent > > > ~ # lspci -nn > > 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIe > > [108e:a001] > > 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced > > PCI Bridge [108e:5000] (rev 13) > > > > 00:01.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced > > PCI Bridge [108e:5000] (rev 13) > > > > 01:03.0 Non-VGA unclassified device [0000]: ALi Corporation M7101 Power > > Management Controller [PMU] [10b9:7101] > > 01:05.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO GEM > > [108e:1101] (rev 01) > > > > 01:05.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO USB > > [108e:1103] (rev 01) > > 01:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge > > [Aladdin IV/V/V+] [10b9:1533] > > 01:0c.0 Bridge [0680]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO EBUS [108e:1100] > > (rev 01) > > 01:0c.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO GEM > > [108e:1101] (rev 01) > > 01:0c.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO USB > > [108e:1103] (rev 01) > > 01:0d.0 IDE interface [0101]: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE [10b9:5229] (rev c3) > > 02:08.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic > > 53C896/897 [1000:000b] (rev 07) > > 02:08.1 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic > > 53C896/897 [1000:000b] (rev 07) > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Laurent > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
