Bug 230181 - anaconda identifies multiple drives as a multipath
Summary: anaconda identifies multiple drives as a multipath
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-02-27 05:41 UTC by Jack Neely
Modified: 2009-02-11 02:15 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 8
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-04-04 19:31:19 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Anaconda log (13.08 KB, text/plain)
2007-02-27 05:41 UTC, Jack Neely
no flags Details
dmesg (16.00 KB, text/plain)
2007-02-27 05:42 UTC, Jack Neely
no flags Details
hdparm -I /dev/sda (1.88 KB, text/plain)
2007-02-28 18:46 UTC, Jack Neely
no flags Details
hdparm -I /dev/sdb (1.88 KB, text/plain)
2007-02-28 18:47 UTC, Jack Neely
no flags Details

Description Jack Neely 2007-02-27 05:41:00 UTC
Description of problem:
I have installed a Promise SATA controller and 2 identical Seagate HDs in a Dell
4550.

  02:01.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300
TX4) (rev 02)

The kernel correctly sees /dev/sda and /dev/sdb and I have done some tests to
partition and check for DOA HDs.  (Bad blocks test, etc.)

Anaconda from the FC6 CDs takes me to the partition configuration screens and
presents me with /dev/mapper/mpathp0 and /dev/mapper/mpath1.  This isn't right.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda 11.1.1.3 (FC6 gold ISOs)

How reproducible:
I pulled up this: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-143840.html

Comment 1 Jack Neely 2007-02-27 05:41:00 UTC
Created attachment 148846 [details]
Anaconda log

Comment 2 Jack Neely 2007-02-27 05:42:26 UTC
Created attachment 148847 [details]
dmesg

Comment 3 Jack Neely 2007-02-28 18:46:05 UTC
Talked with pjones on irc a bit.  He suggested I try installing with the
"nompath" option to the boot kernel which did work.  I was able to install normally.

He also suggested that the serial numbers of my new hard drives were probably
the same, however they are indeed different.  I'm attaching the hdparm -I output
from both HDs.

Comment 4 Jack Neely 2007-02-28 18:46:43 UTC
Created attachment 148948 [details]
hdparm -I /dev/sda

Comment 5 Jack Neely 2007-02-28 18:47:18 UTC
Created attachment 148949 [details]
hdparm -I /dev/sdb

Comment 6 Greg Diebel 2007-06-12 20:42:55 UTC
This happens for me on F7, using 2 identical Maxtor STM3160812AS 160GB SATA
drives. The board is Intel D945GCCR (no onboard RAID) As per #3, the drives do
not have identical serial numbers

Using nompath resolves the issue. If this situation occurs frequently with
multipath why is it the default?

Comment 7 Jack Neely 2007-06-12 20:48:30 UTC
I can confirm that my machine has the same bug in F7 as well.

Comment 8 Harold Pritchett 2007-06-12 23:34:13 UTC
I also have the same problem with F7.  Two Maxtor 500Gb drives to be formatted
as raid1 and LVM.  O/S to be installed on a third drive (80Gb WDC)

Drives:
/dev/sda WDC WD800BB-32FRA0
/dev/sdb MAXTOR STM350063A
/dev/sdc MAXTOR STM350063A

Machine is a 5 year old P4 (TYAN S2090 Trinity i845 MotherBoard), 1.6 GHz P4
processor 1GB ram.

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 06:23:23 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6,
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refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs
for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them.
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If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days
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Comment 10 Jack Neely 2008-04-04 19:31:19 UTC
This bug is no longer reproducible in newer versions of Fedora.

Comment 11 randygalbraith 2009-02-11 02:15:53 UTC
FWIW: The comments in this bug regarding the "nompath" option (thank you!) helped me work around this very issue with my Fedora 10 install yesterday (February 9, 2009).  Until I ran the install with the nompath option I could not get Fedora to see my two 320gb SATA Maxstor drives.  I tried various BIOS settings and the nodmraid option which did not work.  I even dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd[ab] when someone suggested "meta data" on the drives may be leading Fedora install program to only suggest /dev/mapper option.
  -Randy Galbraith


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