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Am Montag 08 Februar 2010 01:27:59 schrieb Peter Humphrey: |
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> Hello again List, |
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> $ sudo fdisk -l |
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> Unable to seek on /dev/sda |
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> What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the |
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> underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at |
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> the moment. Google doesn't help. |
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> The box is a new Armari system with an Asus P7P55D motherboard and a |
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> Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB SATA II hdd. |
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Having read the thread, there are three things that come to my mind: |
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1) Have you tried to read from the disk at block zero, i.e. try something like |
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dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1024 |
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This should read half a megabyte from the disk and for your hardisk be |
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finsihed as soon you release the enter key ... |
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Errors? and messages in dmsg? |
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2) The dmesg-output you mailed contains a call-trace about calgary. AFAIK |
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calgary is a IOmmu. Have you tried to disable it (try something like appending |
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iommu=none to your kernel commandline). |
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Have you looked for a bios upgrade? maybe you can get rid of the "broken bios" |
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messages this way. |
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3) A long time ago, there was a bios option for bootsector-protection, I've |
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never tried this, and I also don't have any idea whether linux sees that in |
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any way. If there is such an option, disable it. |
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Greetings |
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Alex |
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