Hi! I also sent this mail to linux-scsi mailing list but got NO reply :( Here is BUG report: 1. Linux kernels 2.4.x don't see partitions on my AMI MegaRAID 500 raid array. 2. I have server with MegaRAID 500 controller, 40LD BIOS v 3.11 with RAID5 36Gb storage array. Kernels 2.4.[1, 2, 2-ac26, 3-pre8] detects my controller and disk normally as /dev/sda, but then it fails in 'Partiotion check:' with message 'unknown partition table'. MSDOS partition support is included in the kernel. I made some quick debugging and saw that kernel reads zeroes from my scsi disk instead of reading partition table :(. Kernels 2.2.16 and 2.2.18, successfully reads partition table and then works well with megaraid. But i need 2.4 for correct SMP working. 3. drivers,scsi 4. 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.2-ac26, 2.4.3-pre8 5. 6. 7.1 Linux invwms.invacorp 2.2.18 #2 Wed Mar 28 12:26:20 MSD 2001 i686 unknown Gnu C egcs-2.91.66 Gnu make 3.78.1 binutils 2.9.5.0.22 util-linux 2.10f mount 2.10f modutils 2.3.21 e2fsprogs 1.18 pcmcia-cs 3.1.8 Linux C Library 2.1.3 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.1.3 Procps 2.0.6 Net-tools 1.54 Console-tools 0.3.3 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded 7.2 processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 999.785 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 3 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 psn mmx fxsr xmm bogomips : 1992.29 7.3 7.4 7.5 00:00.0 Host bridge: Relience Computer CNB20HE (rev 05) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 set, cache line size 08 00:00.1 Host bridge: Relience Computer CNB20HE (rev 05) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 set, cache line size 08 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC 215IIC [Mach64 GT IIC] (rev 7a) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4756 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 8 min, 66 set, cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Region 1: I/O ports at 5000 Region 2: Memory at fb100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI- D1- D2- PME- Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1229 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 8 min, 56 max, 66 set, cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at fb101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 1: I/O ports at 5400 Region 2: Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI+ D1+ D2+ PME+ Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- 00:08.0 RAID bus controller: American Megatrends Inc.: Unknown device 1960 Subsystem: American Megatrends Inc.: Unknown device 0475 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 set, cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9 Region 0: Memory at fb320000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI- D1- D2- PME- Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Relience Computer: Unknown device 0200 (rev 4f) Subsystem: Relience Computer: Unknown device 0200 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 set 00:0f.1 IDE interface: Relience Computer: Unknown device 0211 (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 set Region 4: I/O ports at 5440 01:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec 7899P Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 00cf Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 40 min, 25 max, 72 set, cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9 BIST result: 00 Region 0: I/O ports at 5800 Region 1: Memory at fd000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI- D1- D2- PME- Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 01:04.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec 7899P Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 00cf Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 40 min, 25 max, 72 set, cache line size 08 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 5 BIST result: 00 Region 0: I/O ports at 6000 Region 1: Memory at fd001000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI- D1- D2- PME- Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 7.6 Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: ESG-SHV Model: SCA HSBP M14 Rev: 0.01 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 01 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID5 35000R Rev: l148 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 7.7 Here is output from dmesg with 2.2.18 kernel: megaraid: v1.11 (Aug 23, 2000) megaraid: found 0x101e:0x1960:idx 0:bus 0:slot 8:func 0 scsi0 : Found a MegaRAID controller at 0xe0000000, IRQ: 9 megaraid: [l148:3.11] detected 1 logical drives scsi0 : AMI MegaRAID l148 254 commands 16 targs 1 chans 40 luns scsi : 1 host. scsi0: scanning channel 1 for devices. Vendor: ESG-SHV Model: SCA HSBP M14 Rev: 0.01 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi0: scanning virtual channel for logical drives. Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID5 35000R Rev: l148 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 1, id 0, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 71680000 [35000 MB] [35.0 GB] Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 > 2.4.x kernels output the same but last 2 lines: Partition check: unknown partition table Please, help me. -- Best regards, Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solvo Ltd. St.Petersburg, Russia ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Best regards, Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solvo Ltd. St.Petersburg, Russia - 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/