Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
A friend of mine had the same probl. A partition-table that linux fdisk (and linux!) reads fine is told to be defect/unreadable by the installation partitioning program. If he switched to the command-line and atempted to mount the partitions or use fdisk, it worked fine... -- MandrakeSoftBr A Href="http://mini.dhs.org/PGP%20Public%20key.asc"PGP Public key/ABr Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well that did it.. Can you fix that for users during install? ok, i'm going to release a patch that'll be available at mandrake.com/en/ulysseslast.php3 (not there yet) and a new ISO will be available when KDE2 is out with this fixed (along with ide-burners pb) [...] Also console 3 shows: found empty partition table on /dev/hdd at sector 0 Bad magic number /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm line 31 solution: hexedit /dev/hdd and put FF at the beginning. (or any little random at the beginning you can think ok :) thanks, cu Pixel.
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here you go.. /dev/hdd is the problem drive.. Also console 3 shows: found empty partition table on /dev/hdd at sector 0 Bad magic number /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm line 31 solution: hexedit /dev/hdd and put FF at the beginning. (or any little random at the beginning you can think ok :)
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
I forgot to thank you. On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here you go.. /dev/hdd is the problem drive.. Also console 3 shows: found empty partition table on /dev/hdd at sector 0 Bad magic number /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm line 31 solution: hexedit /dev/hdd and put FF at the beginning. (or any little random at the beginning you can think ok :)
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
This is an ongoing problem nad still is not fixed.. The same problem happens on RH7 On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, you wrote: On today's 7.2beta install, diskdrake is unable to detect partitions on my IDE drives (primary and secondary) the SCSI drives are detected fine, however. The partition tables were created using fdisk on mandrake 7.1. These same IDE partitions, however, can be seen with no problem in fdisk once linux is installed.
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is an ongoing problem nad still is not fixed.. The same problem happens on RH7 ?? what causes the pb? special hardware? is the kernel reading the partition table or is it a DrakX pb? [...] On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, you wrote: On today's 7.2beta install, diskdrake is unable to detect partitions on my IDE drives (primary and secondary) the SCSI drives are detected fine, however. The partition tables were created using fdisk on mandrake 7.1. These same IDE partitions, however, can be seen with no problem in fdisk once linux is installed.
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
The problem is drakx.. Fdisk reads the drive fine and the OS sees it fine after install. I can mount it without any problem but drakx still can't see it. I use the same drive with same partition with 7.1 and it works fine. Same with RH 6.x worked fine but duing the install of 7.0 I had the same problem. This is a Quantum CR13.0A drive. 1528 cyl 255 heads 63 secs. I will help with what ever I can... Here is the fdisk info. So I just run the install without partitioning this drive and after setup I just add it to fstab. I don't know why this happens on RH7 and Mandrake 7.2 The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 25228. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 25228 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdd1 * 1 24380 12287488+ 83 Linux /dev/hdd2 24381 252284273925 Extended /dev/hdd5 24381 25228427360+ 82 Linux swap Command (m for help): On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is an ongoing problem nad still is not fixed.. The same problem happens on RH7 ?? what causes the pb? special hardware? is the kernel reading the partition table or is it a DrakX pb? [...] On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, you wrote: On today's 7.2beta install, diskdrake is unable to detect partitions on my IDE drives (primary and secondary) the SCSI drives are detected fine, however. The partition tables were created using fdisk on mandrake 7.1. These same IDE partitions, however, can be seen with no problem in fdisk once linux is installed.
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is drakx.. Fdisk reads the drive fine and the OS sees it fine after install. I can mount it without any problem but drakx still can't see wait, i think i've found. Do you have the 256 first bytes of your drive blank? i made an error for the detection of empty partition having 256 instead of 512 :-( can you mail me the report.bug? to get it: switch to console 2 put a fat floppy in floppy drive and type "bug" - it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests me :) thanks, cu Pixel.
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
Ray wrote: The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 25228. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) See the conflict with your earlier statement: This is a Quantum CR13.0A drive. 1528 cyl 255 heads 63 secs No disk can have two values for number of cylinders! It seems that this drive has never been set up with Logical Block Addressing (LBA). You need that with disks this large (over 1024 cylinders). The only way I know to set it up LBA on an existing used disk involves: Copying all partitions you want to save off to another drive Deleting ALL the partitions on this disk, primary, logical and extended. Reboot the machine intercepting the BIOS with DEL. Get the BIOS to redetect all the hard disks, taking care to set this one to LBA. The drive itself will now remember that it is LBA and always report 255 sectors and 63 heads from now on. Use your partitioning utility to set up 3 primary partitions of minimum size, unformatted. If you run Windows from this disk, make the first unformatted and big enough for that. Create an extended partition over the entire remainder of the disk. Copy back all the saved partitions. You will have to delete the new Windows partition to release the primary space for the Windows partition copy back. -- Regards, Ron. [AU]
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
Here you go.. /dev/hdd is the problem drive.. Also console 3 shows: found empty partition table on /dev/hdd at sector 0 Bad magic number /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm line 31 On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is drakx.. Fdisk reads the drive fine and the OS sees it fine after install. I can mount it without any problem but drakx still can't see wait, i think i've found. Do you have the 256 first bytes of your drive blank? i made an error for the detection of empty partition having 256 instead of 512 :-( can you mail me the report.bug? to get it: switch to console 2 put a fat floppy in floppy drive and type "bug" - it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests me :) thanks, cu Pixel. * lspci Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (unknown ignore) Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (unknown ignore) Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ISA (unknown unknown) Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 IDE (STORAGE_IDE unknown) Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 USB (SERIAL_USB usb-uhci) Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (unknown unknown) Intel Corporation|82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (NETWORK_ETHERNET eepro100) SubVendor=0x8086 SubDevice=0x0009 Adaptec|AIC-7881U (STORAGE_SCSI aic7xxx) ATI|3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (DISPLAY_VGA Card:ATI Mach64) SubVendor=0x1002 SubDevice=0x0061 * pci_devices 808671900 f808 0008808671910 0038808671100 0039808671110 ffa1 003a808671120 ef81 003b808671130 008080861229b fc5ff008ef41feb0 fea0 00a0900481785 e801fe9ff000 fe9e 010010024742b fd00d801fe6ff000 fe6c * fdisk Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1002 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 995 1018864 83 Linux /dev/sda2 996 1002 7168 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 529 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 529 4249161 83 Linux Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1247 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1247 10016496 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdb: 1 heads, 1316380 sectors, 1 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1316380 * 512 bytes Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 26354 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 26280 13245088+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 26281 26354 37296 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 25228 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdd1 * 1 24380 12287488+ 83 Linux /dev/hdd2 24381 252284273925 Extended /dev/hdd5 24381 25228427360+ 82 Linux swap * scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: CD-R CDU920S Rev: 2.0b Type: WORM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: MICROP Model: 4110-09NB_Nov18F Rev: TN0F Type: Direct-Access
[Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
On today's 7.2beta install, diskdrake is unable to detect partitions on my IDE drives (primary and secondary) the SCSI drives are detected fine, however. The partition tables were created using fdisk on mandrake 7.1. These same IDE partitions, however, can be seen with no problem in fdisk once linux is installed.
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
Hal Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On today's 7.2beta install, diskdrake is unable to detect partitions on my IDE drives (primary and secondary) what is the error? looks like a hardware/kernel pb to me
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
Pixel wrote: Hal Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On today's 7.2beta install, diskdrake is unable to detect partitions on my IDE drives (primary and secondary) what is the error? looks like a hardware/kernel pb to me In the installer, it says something about being unable to read the partition tables. In Diskdrake from Linux, I get no error message. The drives still appear in diskdrake, but the partition table is just blank white unpartitioned space. Clicking rescue partition table will bring back the real partitions. I see the same symptoms when running diskdrake within Linux (not the installler). diskdrake can't see the ide partition tables, but fdisk sees them with no problem. Mandrake is also installed and running off of these "invisible" partitions, so I don't think it's a hardware or kernel problem. I also experienced a much nastier problem with this bug, when clicking on the "rescue partition table" on a drive where I had an ext2 file system not related to the install, and consented to a write of the partition table (cancel wouldn't let me avoid it) I somehow lost all of the data on that partition (oh the pain!). dd if=/dev/hdb5 now reports a lot of nulls which was previously my data. I'm not sure if this is a result of me telling it not to format that mount in the install, and it ignoring me, or whether diskdrake does something when it writes a partition table. I believe it is the latter because the format would imply that it it created an ext2 filesystem, which is not there. S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
I have the same exact problem and have thru all of the betas.. But it is not a Mandrake problem.. I just installed RedHat 7.0 on the same machine with the same results. Now I have installed RH and Mandrake versions from 5.2 with nio problems.. Must be in the kernel... On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, you wrote: Pixel wrote: Hal Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On today's 7.2beta install, diskdrake is unable to detect partitions on my IDE drives (primary and secondary) what is the error? looks like a hardware/kernel pb to me In the installer, it says something about being unable to read the partition tables. In Diskdrake from Linux, I get no error message. The drives still appear in diskdrake, but the partition table is just blank white unpartitioned space. Clicking rescue partition table will bring back the real partitions. I see the same symptoms when running diskdrake within Linux (not the installler). diskdrake can't see the ide partition tables, but fdisk sees them with no problem. Mandrake is also installed and running off of these "invisible" partitions, so I don't think it's a hardware or kernel problem. I also experienced a much nastier problem with this bug, when clicking on the "rescue partition table" on a drive where I had an ext2 file system not related to the install, and consented to a write of the partition table (cancel wouldn't let me avoid it) I somehow lost all of the data on that partition (oh the pain!). dd if=/dev/hdb5 now reports a lot of nulls which was previously my data. I'm not sure if this is a result of me telling it not to format that mount in the install, and it ignoring me, or whether diskdrake does something when it writes a partition table. I believe it is the latter because the format would imply that it it created an ext2 filesystem, which is not there. Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
Ray wrote: I have the same exact problem and have thru all of the betas.. But it is not a Mandrake problem.. I just installed RedHat 7.0 on the same machine with the same results. Now I have installed RH and Mandrake versions from 5.2 with nio problems.. Must be in the kernel... How can it be a kernel problem when fdisk can see everything just fine? Only diskdrake can't see it. S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [Cooker] Diskdrake unable to detect IDE drive partitions
Does you hard drive use UDMA if it does turn it off in one of your BIOS options of setup and see if the trouble is fixed. That is what I did to fix the trouble. You can turn it on when the install is complete. Gerry Fischbach Hal Black wrote: Ray wrote: I have the same exact problem and have thru all of the betas.. But it is not a Mandrake problem.. I just installed RedHat 7.0 on the same machine with the same results. Now I have installed RH and Mandrake versions from 5.2 with nio problems.. Must be in the kernel... How can it be a kernel problem when fdisk can see everything just fine? Only diskdrake can't see it.
