I have a couple of old NUMA-Q systems which are unable to read their boot disks with 2.6.23-rc4-mm1. The disks appear to be recognised and even the partition tables read correctly, and then they go pop:
qla1280: QLA1040 found on PCI bus 0, dev 10 Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 99922590 ns) Time: jiffies clocksource has been installed. scsi(0:0): Resetting SCSI BUS scsi0 : QLogic QLA1040 PCI to SCSI Host Adapter Firmware version: 7.65.06, Driver version 3.26 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access IBM DGHS18X 0360 PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 scsi(0:0:0:0): Sync: period 10, offset 12, Wide scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access IBM OEM DCHS09X 5454 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 scsi(0:0:1:0): Sync: period 10, offset 12, Wide scsi 0:0:2:0: Direct-Access IBM OEM DCHS09X 5454 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 scsi(0:0:2:0): Sync: period 10, offset 12, Wide scsi 0:0:3:0: Direct-Access IBM OEM DCHS09X 5454 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 scsi(0:0:3:0): Sync: period 10, offset 12, Wide scsi 0:0:4:0: Direct-Access IBM OEM DCHS09X 5454 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 scsi(0:0:4:0): Sync: period 10, offset 12, Wide st: Version 20070203, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 35843670 512-byte hardware sectors (18352 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 35843670 512-byte hardware sectors (18352 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sda: sda1 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 17796077 512-byte hardware sectors (9112 MB) sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 17796077 512-byte hardware sectors (9112 MB) sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sdb: unknown partition table sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] 17796077 512-byte hardware sectors (9112 MB) sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] 17796077 512-byte hardware sectors (9112 MB) sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sdc: sdc1 sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk sd 0:0:3:0: [sdd] 17796077 512-byte hardware sectors (9112 MB) sd 0:0:3:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:3:0: [sdd] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sd 0:0:3:0: [sdd] 17796077 512-byte hardware sectors (9112 MB) sd 0:0:3:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:3:0: [sdd] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sdd: sdd1 sd 0:0:3:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk sd 0:0:4:0: [sde] 17796077 512-byte hardware sectors (9112 MB) sd 0:0:4:0: [sde] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:4:0: [sde] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sd 0:0:4:0: [sde] 17796077 512-byte hardware sectors (9112 MB) sd 0:0:4:0: [sde] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:4:0: [sde] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sde: unknown partition table sd 0:0:4:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 sd 0:0:2:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 sd 0:0:3:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 sd 0:0:4:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 oprofile: using NMI interrupt. TCP cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI Shortcut mode input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse as /class/input/input1 RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 1244KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/done. VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed initrd-tools: 0.1.81.1 mount: fs type devfs not supported by kernel FATAL: Module sd_mod not found. umount: devfs: not mounted ext3: No journal on filesystem on sda1 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 63 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 0 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 1 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 2 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 3 mount: fs type devfs not supported by kernel ext3: No journal on filesystem on sda1 umount: devfs: not mounted sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 28010831 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 31080815 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 31080855 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 31080919 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 3885107 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 28411047 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 31135687 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 31138007 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] <6>sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00 -apw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/