Bug 167160

More details:

fdisk -l /dev/hdb:

Disk /dev/hdb: 39703 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 39703/16/63).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 0+ 13 14- 112423+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 2357 2344 18828180 83 Linux
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (309,254,63)
/dev/hdb3 2358 2490 133 1068322+ 82 Linux swap
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (310,0,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (442,254,63)
/dev/hdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

fstab:
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto 0 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/disk2 ext3 suid,dev,exec,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

grub.conf:
# By default boot the second entry
default=1
timeout=20
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

# Disk #1
title Fedora Core 3 - Disk1 - 2.6.12-1.1372 kernel
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=/dev/hda2
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img

# Disk #2
title Fedora Core 4 - Disk2 - 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 kernel
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 ro root=/dev/hdb2
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4.img

I have had no problems until this kernel update.

I have data on this disk I need!

Thanks.

I have managed to get the data back from the disk, amd this is the dmesg from
the boot.

hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 40020624 sectors (20490 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39703/16/63, UDMA(100)

seems to be where all went wrong, the number of sectors should be 255 not 16.

....
Linux version 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc
version 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)) #1 Fri Aug 26 20:29:51 EDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fe71000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fe71000 - 000000001fe73000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fe73000 - 000000001fe94000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fe94000 - 000000001ff00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
510MB LOWMEM available.
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
On node 0 totalpages: 130673
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 126577 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL                                  ) @ 0x000feba0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL    GX260   0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd4ff
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL    GX260   0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd537
ACPI: SSDT (v001   DELL    st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffd8c01
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL    GX260   0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd5ab
ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL    GX260   0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd617
ACPI: ASF! (v016 DELL    GX260   0x00000008 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x000fd63f
ACPI: DSDT (v001   DELL    dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Allocating PCI resources starting at 1ff00000 (gap: 1ff00000:ded00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hdb2
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0458000 soft=c0457000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 2000.492 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 512680k/522692k available (2518k kernel code, 9388k reserved, 690k data,
184k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3964.92 BogoMIPS (lpj=1982464)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400
00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400
00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000400
00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 07
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e08)
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1082k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbdf6, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050729
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x800-0x85f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x860-0x8ff could not be reserved
Simple Boot Flag value 0x87 read from CMOS RAM was invalid
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1125471582.100:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 1C1942C715575330
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1])
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 845G Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 892K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f13:MOU] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 76 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ICH4: chipset revision 1
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IC35L030AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 2B020H1, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: Lite-On LTN486S 48x Max, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 40020624 sectors (20490 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39703/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes not supported
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 458752 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI wakeup devices: 
VBTN PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 PCI1  KBD 
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 6.0.54-k2-NAPI
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0c.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49041 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
hw_random: RNG not detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 3, io mem 0xffa00800
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 9, io base 0x0000ff80
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0x0000ff60
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 10, io base 0x0000ff40
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Using generic hotkey driver
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [VBTN]
ibm_acpi: Using generic hotkey driver
toshiba_acpi: Using generic hotkey driver
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel
EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal
Adding 1068312k swap on /dev/hdb3.  Priority:-1 extents:1

also last packages applied:
Aug 30 08:10:29 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4
Aug 30 08:10:29 Updated: dbus-python.i386 0.33-3.fc4.1.

Not sure what caused the error?

Mass update to all FC4 bugs:

An update has been released (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4) which rebases to a new upstream
kernel (2.6.13.2). As there were ~3500 changes upstream between this and the
previous kernel, it's possible your bug has been fixed already.

Please retest with this update, and update this bug if necessary.

Thanks.

The CHS data is taken directly from the drive.

In the case it differs the partition tools should be trusting the partition
table geometry data. I don't immediately see how it can be kernel related. Odd

I took comment 2 to mean that the kernel misdetects it since updating to the
errata..

"hdb: 40020624 sectors (20490 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39703/16/63, UDMA(100)

seems to be where all went wrong, the number of sectors should be 255 not 16."

(The reporter meant s/sectors/heads I assume).

The only way this can happen from my understanding is that on the newer kernel,
we're failing the 'idedisk_supports_lba48()' test for some reason, and not
setting H/S, where we were on the earlier kernel.

AFAIK though, that test hasn't changed, so its very puzzling.

2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 has been released as an update for FC4.
Please retest with this update, as a large amount of code has been changed in
this release, which may have fixed your problem.

Thank you.

This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs.

A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4)
based upon a new upstream kernel release.

Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches
go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that
may address this problem.

This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state.
Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is
still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed.

Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter
can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list
of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a
comment to the bug.

If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the
release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613.

Thank you.

Closing per previous comment.