Drives will not format...

[Brian Rademacher]

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 at feuerpokemon.de>
To: "Brian Rademacher" <rad at radfiles.net>; "For testers of Fedora Core 
development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
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 ...