From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Zick" Subject: Re: SPAM: [parisc-linux] Can't write to hard drives on a K200 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:06:15 -0500 Message-ID: <200609251906.15570.mszick@morethan.org> References: <4518662C.6020103@emenaker.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <4518662C.6020103@emenaker.com> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org 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 _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux