From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:20:39 +0100 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM seems to be causing SCSI errors. Message-ID: <20011008172039.A4196@btconnect.com> References: <135135307.1002326338570.JavaMail.root@boots> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <135135307.1002326338570.JavaMail.root@boots>; from rmvzj001@sneakemail.com on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:52:50PM -0000 From: Joe Thornber Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:52:50PM -0000, Karl wrote: > > Well, if it is within the size of the drive, and you get a "bad noise" > > when trying to access it, then it may be that you have a bad drive. If > > you are doing low-level formats of the drive, this may do bad block > > relocation, and hide the fact that there are bad spots. > > That's what I thought at first, but as I explained earlier, the errors > ONLY occur when running under LVM and go away as soon as I use the raw > disk. I went back and forth several times. I'm pretty sure it is an LVM > thing, but no idea what it is. The only thing I can think is that the SCSI device is not being opened/initialised properly by LVM. This certainly wasn't happening before ~July when I put the open/close_pv() functions in. But should be working now. Puzzled. You really are using the new tools and not old binaries in strange places ? I've been caught a couple of times by this ... - Joe