hdd with 2.6.8-16sarge7: -------
hdd: ST340823A, ATA DISK drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdd: max request size: 128KiB hdd: Host Protected Area detected. current capacity is 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) native capacity is 78165361 sectors (40020 MB) hdd: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/1024KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3 -------- Badblocks read-only and non-destructive write return no error, filesystems are fsck clean: --------- # /etc/init.d/lvm start Setting up LVM Volume Groups... Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "spare" using metadata type lvm2 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "spare" now active # fsck.ext3 -f /dev/mapper/spare-home e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/mapper/spare-home: 68784/524288 files (1.8% non-contiguous), 767457/1048576 blocks # fsck.ext3 -f /dev/mapper/spare-media e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/mapper/spare-media: 31748/3538944 files (2.0% non-contiguous), 6045677/7077888 blocks ------------- Contains three partitions used by lvm: ---------- 22 64 39082680 hdd 22 65 9831748 hdd1 22 66 16073032 hdd2 22 67 13173300 hdd3 254 0 28311552 dm-0 254 1 4194304 dm-1 # pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdd1 VG Name spare PV Size 9.38 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 2400 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 2400 PV UUID YwheMf-s0pv-97XS-sAOB-oGSk-WcHA-ZEo8Ag --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdd3 VG Name spare PV Size 12.56 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 3216 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 3216 PV UUID b9Xviu-XSOP-9lz4-4gcY-tE9W-fqxA-k2amBh --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/hdd2 VG Name spare PV Size 15.32 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 3923 Free PE 1603 Allocated PE 2320 PV UUID TEN6QM-MVlA-LDlO-Moiu-O7mU-VTfZ-pinLz6 ------------ With 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 and 2.6.22-2snapshot.9178 on etch kernel complains a lot about read errors and lvm code fails to scan the drive for physical volumes after that. I suppose initial ide drive scan fails and the drive is disabled since. Boot time logs go past so fast, that I can't catch them. 'hdd=noprobe hdd=65535,16,63' boot options don't help. -------------- # hdparm -i /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: Model=ST340823A, FwRev=3.07, SerialNo=7EF1EYYG Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=1024kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78165360 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma3 udma4 udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1 ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 * signifies the current active mode ----------------- All operations like fdisk fail after boot like this: ------------- end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 printk: 33 messages suppressed. Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1 Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 1 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 2 Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 2 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 3 Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 3 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 4 Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 4 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 5 Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 5 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 6 Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 6 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 7 Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 7 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 8 Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 8 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 9 Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 9 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 10 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 11 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 12 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 13 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 14 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 15 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 16 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 17 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 18 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 19 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 20 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 21 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 22 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 24 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 25 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 26 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 27 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 28 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 29 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 30 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 31 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 2 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 3 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 4 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 5 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 6 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 7 # /etc/init.d/lvm restart Shutting down LVM Volume Groups... /dev/hdd: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hdd1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hdd2: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hdd3: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error No volume groups found Setting up LVM Volume Groups... Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... /dev/hdd: read failed after 0 of 512 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hdd: read failed after 0 of 512 at 40020541440: Input/output error /dev/hdd: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hdd1: read failed after 0 of 512 at 10067640320: Input/output error /dev/hdd1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hdd2: read failed after 0 of 512 at 16458711040: Input/output error /dev/hdd2: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hdd3: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 13489340416: Input/output error /dev/hdd3: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error No volume groups found No volume groups found /dev/hdd: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hdd1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hdd2: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error /dev/hdd3: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error No volume groups found # hdparm -z /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: BLKRRPART failed: Input/output error # dmesg ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 2 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 3 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 4 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 5 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 6 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 7 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 2 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 3 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 4 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 5 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 6 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 7 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 2 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 3 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 4 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 5 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 6 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 7 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 2 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 3 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 4 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 5 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 6 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 7 Dev hdd: unable to read RDB block 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 2 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 3 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 4 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 5 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 6 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 7 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 2 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 3 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 4 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 5 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 6 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 7 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 24 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 25 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 26 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 27 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 28 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 29 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 30 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 31 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 24 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 25 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 26 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 27 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 28 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 29 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 30 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 31 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 2 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 3 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 4 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 5 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 6 end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 7 unable to read partition table # cat /proc/ide/hdd/cache 1024 # cat /proc/ide/hdd/capacity 78165361 # cat /proc/ide/hdd/driver ide-disk version 1.18 # cat /proc/ide/hdd/geometry physical 16383/16/63 logical 65535/16/63 # cat /proc/ide/hdd/media disk # cat /proc/ide/hdd/model ST340823A # cat /proc/ide/hdd/settings name value min max mode ---- ----- --- --- ---- acoustic 0 0 254 rw address 0 0 2 rw bios_cyl 65535 0 65535 rw bios_head 16 0 255 rw bios_sect 63 0 63 rw bswap 0 0 1 r current_speed 66 0 70 rw failures 2 0 65535 rw init_speed 66 0 70 rw io_32bit 0 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw lun 0 0 7 rw max_failures 1 0 65535 rw multcount 0 0 16 rw nice1 1 0 1 rw nowerr 0 0 1 rw number 3 0 3 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw using_dma 0 0 1 rw wcache 1 0 1 rw ----------------- Booting back to sarge kernel and all is fine... -Mikko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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