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Bug 207663
Summary: | SATA disk format fails at installation | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Stephen Rondeau <srondeau3> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6 | CC: | davej, peterm, triage, wtogami |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | bzcl34nup | ||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2008-05-06 16:23:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 172490 |
Description
Stephen Rondeau
2006-09-22 12:37:17 UTC
If you switch ttys, are there any errors? Sorry, didn't even think about possibility of ttys behind X. Errors start with these kind (this is the last -- rest were gone by the time I had switched; numbers in angular brackets are approximate): <6>ata2.00: tag 30 cmd 0x61 Emask 0x4 start 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) <4>ata2: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) Then it said it would wait 5 seconds to retry, and was doing nothing for much longer, so I switched to another tty, then back and saw screenfuls of these messages, with the last one being: <6> sd1:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code=0x00040000 <4> end_request: I/O error, dev sdb sector 484197424 (all the same return code. The previous erroneous sector was 484196400) On another tty (not exact text): Format command: /usr/sbin/mke2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 -i 4096 -j And another: Writing inode tables: done ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while creating root directory end_request: I/O error, dev sdb sector 484197424 that doesn't look too promising, and is suggestive (to me) to be a hardware defect. I'll let Jeff comment on the accuracy of that claim however. So far it looks like problematic hardware. Need much more dmesg output in order to find out, though. Check your cables, replace the drive, etc. Shouldn't be a hardware problem. Windows XP formats partition (full format) as NTFS with no problems. Another partition on the drive is also formatted and operational (able to write and read via NTFS filesystem). Doubt if it is problematic hardware, when Windows can handle it. How can I get more dmesg output -- what tty, and how can I trap it? Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks. If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6, please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days from now, it will be closed 'WONTFIX'. If you can reporduce this bug in the latest Fedora version, please change to the respective version. If you are unable to do this, please add a comment to this bug requesting the change. Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we are following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again. And if you'd like to join the bug triage team to help make things better, check out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |