Bug 77420

Summary: partition table on scsi hd unreadable at installation (AIC-7892)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <mvann>
Component: kernelAssignee: Doug Ledford <dledford>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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ctrl-alt-F1, then go to F4 screen during install error none

Description Need Real Name 2002-11-06 19:37:35 UTC 
Description of Problem:
Installation on Dell 530 Prec. Workstation with two Fujitsu SCSI HD (18GB 10K )
and Adaptec AIC-7892 host:  installation says "the partition table on device 
sda/sdb unreadable", install terminates; both disks are seen at boot, by 
Windows 2K (Win2K on sda), and by fdisk with boot from Win98 boot disk; fdisk 
can partition disks.  Have tried installation with "linux apic", "linux 
noapic", and text install.  Same error everytime.  Understand that AIC-7892 not 
officially supported by Red Hat, but its a fairly common card and this is a new 
machine.  Is there a patch, workaround, or fix for this?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible:
Happens every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from install cd-rom and proceed through install
2. 
3. 

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Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-11-07 18:52:04 UTC 
By the way the Dell Precision 530 Workstation is certified hardware for Redhat 
7.3 including the AIC-7892.  The only difference between the certified machine 
and mine is the Fujitsu SCSI HDs.
http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=details&hid=4022
Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2002-11-07 18:57:14 UTC 
can you get any more messages just before that ?
Comment 3 Need Real Name 2002-11-08 20:11:27 UTC 
1. arrive at GUI screen to partition HD, 2. Choose a method, 3. Message says 
something to the effect "can't read partition table on device sda (or sdb). Do 
you want to initialize? This will destroy any data", 4. Say OK, 5. Then message 
says "Input/output error during read on /dev/sdb - Retry, Ignore, Cancel".  5.  
Say Retry or Ignore: message reappears, say Cancel and abort message appears 
something like "No Drives Found An error has occurred - no valid devices were 
found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the 
cause of this problem." then OK aborts the install and the system shuts down.

If do ctrl-alt-F1 while error message on screen get:
F1: Error Input/output error during read on /dev/sda (msg repeats for sdb)
F4: see attached file

I did get the install to see the drives ONE time.  I used automatic 
partitioning and then edited the system generated partitions.  The install 
proceeded but locked up while installing packages from Disk 2.  No more luck 
after that.
Comment 4 Need Real Name 2002-11-08 20:13:04 UTC 
Created attachment 84264 [details]
ctrl-alt-F1, then go to F4 screen during install error
Comment 5 Arjan van de Ven 2002-11-08 20:14:38 UTC 
<4>(scsi0:A:1:0): parity error detected in Data-in phase. SEQADDR(0x72)
SCSIRATE(0xc2)
<4>	CRC Value Mismatch
hmmmm
Comment 6 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:40:10 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/