Re: FC7T4 Install Failure(SCSI READ ERRORS)

[Sean Bruno <sean bruno dsl-only net>]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 22:15 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> Sorry for the late install folks, I know this is T4 and I should have
> gotten around to this sooner.  It's been a while since I've had some
> time to use a test release(I'm not sure where FC7T4 bugs go in bugzilla
> even!).  
> 
> Not sure why I would get these errors on install, and I'm not quite sure
> if they are from my hard drives or my CDROM.  I _assume_ that this is a
> CDROM drive read failing.  I have a Sony DVD Burner, model DRU-800A.
> 
> The system is a dual-opteron running on the ASUS K8N-DL mobo and runs
> FC6 x86_64 just fine.
> 
> Using the x86_64 DVD ISO, I attempted to install.  The following errors
> are the last display on my console after I skip the media check in
> anaconda.  After selecting skip, I see an error message about anaconda
> being terminated.
> 
> --
> <6> device-mapper: multipath emc: version 0.0.3 loaded
> <3> SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x15c5e
> <3> SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [5716b1d:16f2]
> <3> SQUASHFS error: Unable to read inode [5716b1d:16f2]
> <6> sr 3:0:0:0: SCSI error:  return code = 0x08000002
> <6> sr0: Current: sense key: Hardware Error
> <6>      Additional sense: Logical unit communication CRC error
> (Ultra-DMA/32)
> <4> end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 6424656
> <3> SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x1bd4
> <3> SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 6f2cfb, size 2566
> <6> sr: 3:0:0:0: SCSI error:  return code = 0x08000002
> <6> sr0: Current: sense key: Hardware Error
> <6>      Additional sense:  Logical unit communications CRC error
> (Ultra-DMA/32)
> <4> end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 6424656
> <6> sr 3:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002
> <6> sr0: Current:  sense key: Hardware Error
> <6>      Additional sense:  Logical unit communication CRC error
> (Ultra-DMA/32)
> <4> end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 6424656
> <3> SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x1bd4
> <3> SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 6f2cfb, size 2566
> <3> SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x1bd4
> <3> SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 6f2cfb, size 2566
> <3> SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x1bd4
> <3> SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 6f2cfb, size 2566
> 
> 
> Sean
> 

Just as a follow up to this issue,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238582 was resolved
by attaching a 80-wire IDE cable to the drive.

As I say in the ticket, it seems that the new SCSI->ATA stuff or the
DVD-ROM drive isn't respecting the mode of the cable.  

Sean