Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12p-4
Severity: normal
I have a couple of disks (both SCSI and IDE) which were partitioned
and formatted on Debian GNU/Linux (Alpha). I connected them to my
x86_64 box, and the driver sees the disks fine, i.e.,
remaxp:~# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y160M0 Rev: YAR5
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S65A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS04U Rev: 6464
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM OEM Model: DCHS09U Rev: 6363
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
(note the first one is my regular SATA disk).
I can mount and access the data, and the device mapper even sees the
logical volumes, but I cannot read the partition table using fdisk.
For any disk I get the following message:
remaxp:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 4335 MB, 4335206400 bytes
134 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8308 * 512 = 4253696 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
Of course, the first lines vary, but both non-interactive and
interactive fdisk cannot obtain the partition table. Since this is
independent of bus protocol (SCSI and PATA), and all tools I tried
(mount, lvm, cp) accessed the disks just fine, I conclude that this is
not a kernel issue (yes, BSD disk labels are configured in) but a
problem in fdisk. Please reassing if this assumption is incorrect.
So this bug can be worked around by simply trying to mount /dev/sda1,
.. /dev/sdaN (/dev/hda1, .., /dev/hdaN) but still IMHO fdisk should be
fixed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-9-amd64-k8
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Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libuuid1 1.37-2 universally unique id library
ii slang1a-utf8 1.4.9dbs-8 The S-Lang programming library wit
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
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