Anaconda/Sata_Promise conflict?

[Jim Bevier]

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>From: "Kevin H. Hobbs" <hobbsk at ohiou.edu>
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>Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:40 AM
>Subject: Re: Anaconda/Sata_Promise conflict?
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>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