From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I fully upgraded an FC3 system on 1/15/2005, including installing the kernel kernel-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 (i686). After reboot in runlevel 3, error messages from the kernel showed up as follows (and were also in /var/log/messages): Jan 15 22:12:07 tiger kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Jan 15 22:12:07 tiger kernel: SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000 Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : sense not available. Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : sense not available. Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda:<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0 Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: unable to read partition table Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : sense not available. Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00 Jan 15 22:12:08 tiger kernel: sda : sense not available. ... ... This same system works perfectly with kernel kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with kernel kernel-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 2. 3. Actual Results: Error message in /var/log/messages as shown above Expected Results: No read errors on /dev/sda with that kernel. Additional info:
What kind of device is /dev/sda? Is your system disk /dev/hda?
Yes it is. From df | sort ... Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 5010464 2822756 2187708 57% /mnt/windows /dev/hda4 10080520 6283832 3284620 66% /usr /dev/hda5 202219 18567 173212 10% /boot /dev/hda6 4949312 3192492 1505408 68% / /dev/hda7 10649680 4810608 5298088 48% /documents /dev/hda8 8910284 4260084 4197572 51% /home /dev/hdb1 101086 20347 75520 22% /_boot /dev/hdb2 10009328 7200020 2300852 76% /_usr /dev/hdb3 10080520 3325056 6243396 35% /_home /dev/hdb5 10080488 7409856 2158564 78% /work /dev/hdb6 10080488 6697396 2871024 70% /work2 /dev/hdb7 5036284 2648572 2131880 56% /_ /dev/hdb10 8681132 4392140 3848012 54% /freescale /home 8910284 4260084 4197572 51% /tiger/home none
I have installed the new kernel 2.6.10-1.753_FC3 from updates/testing and the issue has gone away. Should we call it "resolved"?