From: "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org>
To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: SPAM: [parisc-linux] Can't write to hard drives on a K200
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:06:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609251906.15570.mszick@morethan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4518662C.6020103@emenaker.com>
On Mon September 25 2006 18:28, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> I've booted a Gentoo install CD, which puts me in a root shell. The
> first step, I guess, is to partition the drives... but the thing won't
> let me.
>
> > When I try to write from "cfdisk /dev/sda", it gives me:
> > Wrting partition table to disk...
> > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
> > Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
> > lost page write due to I/O error on sda
> > SCSI device sda: 8388314 512-byte hdwr sectors (4295 MB)
>
> Just in case it was a glitch in cfdisk, I tried writing from fdisk, as well:
>
> > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
> > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
> > Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
> > lost page write due to I/O error on sda
> > SCSI device sda: 8388314 512-byte hdwr sectors (4295 MB)
> > sda: Write Protect is off
> > SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through w/ FUA
> > SCSI device sda: 8388314 512-byte hdwr sectors (4295 MB)
> > sda: Write Protect is off
> > SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through w/ FUA
>
> Hrmmm.... so maybe the disks are read-only somehow, right? Well then how
> come I can dd like so:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=10
>
> That works fine. So.... anybody have any idea what's going on?
>
Other problems have been report on other models that also use the ncr53c720
driver - most often filesystem corruption.
The problem has not yet been isolated - might be the driver code or the
hardware adapter code used with that scsi adapter.
In contrast, some pci add-in cards that use the driver are known to work(???).
Translation: Something is wrong, no one has yet offered a solution.
Mike
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2006-09-26 0:06 ` Michael S. Zick [this message]
2006-09-26 12:13 ` [parisc-linux] Can't write to hard drives on a K200 Joel Soete
2006-09-26 23:38 ` Joe Emenaker
2006-09-27 2:28 ` Michael S. Zick
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