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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA: "unknown partition table" error, fdisk can't fix, works in	2.6.13
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:20:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060929152040.6b7c4e3c@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451D7DE8.8020504@freescale.com>

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:11:20 -0500 Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:

> I have a SATA drive attached to a PowerPC 8349E board, using the SIL 3114 controller.  I'm running the latest code from Paul Mackerras (PowerPC maintainer) (2.6.18-blabla).
> 
> I'm experiencing a number of I/O errors with the SATA drive.  fdisk can see the partition table, but when I issue the "w" command, I get this output:
> 
> The odd thing is that this works in 2.6.13, so something is broken.  I don't know if it's a bug in the sata_sil driver, or a configuration issue.  Can anyone help?
> 

Do you use MSDOS or MAC partition (or other) type? Make sure you have
the one you use in the config.

It looks like the arch/powerpc/configs/mpc83* defconfigs enable neither.


-Olof

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-29 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-29 20:11 SATA: "unknown partition table" error, fdisk can't fix, works in 2.6.13 Timur Tabi
2006-09-29 20:20 ` Chris Boot
2006-09-29 20:29   ` Timur Tabi
2006-09-29 20:20 ` Olof Johansson [this message]

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