Bug 112053
| Summary: | parted fails to recognize present partition information | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Knut Zakariassen <linux> |
| Component: | parted | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | CC: | axel.thimm |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-06-25 19:32:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I think that there might be a mismatch between the geometry used on the disk, on the controller, and what's communicated to the kernel. Can you please provide all of the supported geometries for your drive, what the BIOS reports, and what the kernel prints out in the bootup messages? The disk is a 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus - ST3160023A According to the user manual, the default logical geometry of the disk is: 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16383 cylinders. ------------- Mandrake 9.2: ------------- /proc/ide/hde/geometry: physical 19457/255/63 logical 19457/255/63 /proc/ide/hde/capacity: 312581808 fdisk -l /dev/hde: Disk /dev/hde: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes ... -------------- Fedora Core 1: -------------- /proc/ide/hde/geometry: physical 19457/255/63 logical 19457/255/63 /proc/ide/hde/capacity: 268435456 fdisk -l /dev/hde: Disk /dev/hde: 137.4 GB, 137438953472 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16709 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes ... dmesg | grep hde: hde: ST3160023A, ATA DISK drive hde: attached ide-disk driver. hde: host protected area => 1 hde: LBA48 large I/O not supported, capacity limited to 137 Gb. hde: 268435436 sectors (137439 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16709/255/63, UDMA(100) Apparently LBA48 fails to be activated, or may not exist in the kernel at all. I see the same behaviour with a Maxtor 6Y160P0 (160GB, PATA, no
partition table):
kernel: hdc: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA DISK drive
kernel: hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
kernel: hdc: host protected area => 1
kernel: hdc: LBA48 large I/O not supported, capacity limited to 137Gb.
kernel: hdc: 268435456 sectors (137439 MB) w/7936KiB Cache,
CHS=19929/255/63
# hdparm -i /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=Maxtor 6Y160P0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y444NC6E
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7936kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: (null):
* signifies the current active mode
# fdisk -l /dev/hdc
Disk /dev/hdc: 137.4 GB, 137438953472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16709 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/hdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630 Description of problem: Booting from Fedora Core 1 disk 1, existing partition information is not recognized during the install, when the disk is connected as master/single on the 1st interface of the onboard promise ata-100 controller. I get a message that states that no partiton information was found, and that the disk needs to be initialized. Furthermore, if i do this, the disk seems to 'loose' some 30gb worth of space (After the init, disk is reported to be approx 16000 cyls / 130gb instead of the 19000+ cylinders /160 gb that is the capacity of the drive. If the drive, however, is connected as master to the second interface, the full capacity is recognized. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Partition empty harddisk using linux fdisk 2. Boot from Fedora Core 1 Disk 1 3. Choose manual partitioning Actual Results: The existing partition information is not recognized, and you are given the choice to reinitialize the disk and start afresh. If you do this, the disks capacity will be reduced with approx 30 gb (At least thats what happens to me.) If you choose not to reinitialize, the machine will reboot, due to not finding any usable harddisk space. Expected Results: Present partitions should be recognized, and I should get the choice on mountpoints for the different partitions. Additional info: