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Description of problem: When passing num_parts=4 (or even =1) it creates a partition table that is invlid. This happens on s390x and possibly on ppc64. It works fine on x86 systems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Linux 2.6.32-207.el6.s390x #1 SMP Mon Oct 10 01:56:05 EDT 2011 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux Steps to Reproduce: 1. modprobe scsi_debug num_parts=4 2. dmesg Additional info: dmesg output from modprobe scsi_debug num_parts=4 scsi_debug: host protection scsi36 : scsi_debug, version 1.82 [20100324], dev_size_mb=8, opts=0x0 scsi 36:0:0:0: Direct-Access Linux scsi_debug 0004 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 36:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 sd 36:0:0:0: [sdb] 16384 512-byte logical blocks: (8.38 MB/8.00 MiB) sd 36:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 36:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 73 00 10 08 sd 36:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 sdb: p1 ignored, start 536870912 is behind the end of the disk sdb: p2 ignored, start 983040 is behind the end of the disk sdb: p3 ignored, start 2031616 is behind the end of the disk sdb: p4 ignored, start 3080192 is behind the end of the disk sd 36:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
Since RHEL 6.2 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or blocker. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 563489 ***