Bug 72686
| Summary: | Parted doesn't support MAXTOR 6L080L4 | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | hjl | ||||
| Component: | parted | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-06-25 18:38:48 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 73226 [details]
A patch
Kernel reports: blk: queue c03e2aa4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c03e2aa4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9964/255/63, UDMA(100) blk: queue c03e2e00, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c03e2e00, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=155114/16/63, UDMA(33) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 > hdc: [PTBL] [9732/255/63] hdc1 It looks like kernel used a different geometry and parted doesn't like it. When I put the same IDE drive on a 3ware ATA card, it also reports 9732/255/63. It looks like parted has a bug, but my patch may not be the right fix. I think maybe we should port the kernel PTBL stuff to parted. |
Parted doesn't work on 80GB MAXTOR 6L080L4 IDE. I got Using /dev/hda Error: The partition table on /dev/hda is inconsistent. There are many reasons why this might be the case. However, the most likely reason is that Linux detected the BIOS geometry for /dev/hda incorrectly. GNU Parted suspects the real geometry should be 155114/16/63 (not 9732/255/63). You should check with your BIOS first, as this may not be correct. You can inform Linux by adding the parameter hda=155114,16,63 to the command line. See the LILO or GRUB documentation for more information. If you think Parted's suggested geometry is correct, you may select Ignore to continue (and fix Linux later). Otherwise, select Cancel (and fix Linux and/or the BIOS now). The problem is parted is wrong and BIOS/kernel is right. As the result, my partition table created by parted is very strange: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9732 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 16 122944+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(243, 15, 63) should be (243, 254, 63) /dev/hda2 16 462 3584448 83 Linux Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hda3 462 527 524664 82 Linux swap Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hda4 527 9733 73945368 83 Linux Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)