I found this in the driver release notes, so it may be a bug there, and not
in Fedora:
- In Kernel 2.6, a device may be set into offline state due to bus reset.
This issue
will be fixed in a future revision.
- In Kernel 2.4 a device may be set into offline state under heavy load of
bus resets
issued by sg_reset utility.
This issue will be fixed in future revisions.
Although it mentions kernel 2.4 on the second bug, the heavy load thing
would make sense in my case...
----- Original Message -----
From: "dragoran" <dragoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Brian Rademacher" <rad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "For testers of Fedora Core
development releases" <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: Drives will not format...
Brian Rademacher wrote:
System is an Abit SU-2S, dual Opteron 246, 2 gigs ECC, 2 Maxtor 300 gig
SATA-II drives, Marvell 88SX-6081 SATA II controller...
I can get each drive to format on it's own and install, but when both are
connected, formatting in software RAID 0, or even leaving it as the
default "automatic" partitions results in:
Writing inode tables 980/4454 (then it stops)
Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks...Anaconda dies shortly
thereafter saying that it can't continue...
Then the drives go off line, and "Rejecting I/O to offline device" shows
up in dmesg...
I've taken out RAM, passed every kernel parameter I can think of before
the install, wiped out the HDs with DD, etc...
looks like a bug fill it ...