Re: Anaconda/Sata_Promise conflict?

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin H. Hobbs" <hobbsk@xxxxxxxxx> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: Anaconda/Sata_Promise conflict?


On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:29 -0700, Jim Bevier wrote:
I have 2 systems running Fedora Core. Each is a K8V-SE Deluxe motherboard with onboard PDC2037 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) controller chips. One system has a Athlon 64 3200+ processor and the other a 3400+. Each has two 160GB IDE primary (hda/hdb) drives. Also two 160GB IDE (PATA) drives connected to the promise controller in IDE mode as sda/sdb drives. Drive /dev/sdb on each system has two Linux primary partitions and a swap partition. On system 2 (3400+), I have FC5 on hda6 and FC6T1 on hda8. FC5 & FC6 both have sdb1 & sdb2 mounted using fstab entries. FC5 was an upgrade from FC4 and FC6 was a new install. System 1 (3200+) has FC5 on hda6. I had to manually upgrade from FC4 because Anaconda fails when I select upgrade with an error saying
it can not mount /sdb1.  I tried the FC5 and respin FC5 cds with the same
error.  It would not put the abort dump info on a floppy no matter what I
tried ether! That is another story. I tried FC6T1 and it gives an error right after I select "upgrade hda6" saying it could not mount sdb1 and says
there might not be a file system on the partition.  I deleted the sdb1
partition and created a new one and created a new ext3 file system on it.
Still the same error. From FC5 I can mount the partiton and read/write it with no problems. So why is Anaconda complaining? I can stop the error by
removing the entries for sdb1 & sdb2 from the fstab file under FC5???
System 2 is almost exactly the same and gives no error on upgrade selection
with the fstab entries in place.  What else can I try?  What is at fault
here?  Any help to debug this would be appreciated.


I have the same controller, and saw the same issues with the parallel
interface on the serial controller.  There was some discussion of this
before...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179369


That is the bug I reported and them provided a patch to fix. This is not an issue of being able to see or use the drive from Linux. Anaconda sees the drive, but does not recognize the file system on it. I am not sure if it can see the partition table either. I do not know what the problem is.

Jim
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