Bug#41033: marked as done ([slink] cannot write partition to SCSI drive using fdisk or cfdisk)
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From: Valerie Norton <norton@chem.ucsb.edu>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: cannot write partition to SCSI drive using fdisk or cfdisk
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Package: boot floppies
Version: 2.1
I have an Adaptec AHA2940W SCSI controler card with 2 devices on it:
a Fujitsu M2915Q-512 hard drive and a Plextor CD-ROM PX-4XCS. The
CD-ROM is apparently broken, but I have not gotten any different
results for having it there or not. I have been able to easily
partition this system using the fdisk provided with WIN95, but it
has obvious drawbacks.
I have used both fdisk and cfdisk from the boot images at:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440.bin
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440tecra.bin
with exactly the same results. Results are:
For cfdisk (which I am automatically put into by the program):
After the boot, I choose color monitor, continue, continue,
configure keyboard, qwerty/us, partition a Hard Drive.
Select Disk Drive box: /dev/sda (which is set to the default)
In cfdisk I create the partition table:
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
----------------------------------------------------------------
sda1 Boot Primary Linux 400.06
sda2 Primary Linux 1608.07
sda3 Primary Linux Swap 62.76
This is all of the disk (2 gigs), so I select [Write] and confirm
(yes) that I do want to write this table. At this point the
computer claims "Writing partition table to disk..." and the HDD
light comes on for about 10 seconds and goes off for about 1 second.
It continues to flash like this for as long as I leave the computer
on, upwards of 4 hours. It takes 20 minutes to format the drive
entirely.
For fdisk:
After the boot from the flopy, I choose color, continue, continue,
configure the keyboard, qwerty/us. When Partition a Hard Disk is
default, I type alt+F2 to get:
Please press Enter to activate this console. <enter>
#
At this prompt I start fdisk:
# fdisk
Using /dev/sda as default device!
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun or SGI disklabel
Building a new disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-264, default 1): 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-264, default 264): +400M
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First sylinder (52-264, default 52): 52
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (52-264, default 264): +1610M
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partion number (1-4): 3
First cylinder (258-264, default 258): 258
Last cylinder of +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (258-264, default 264): 264
Command (m for help): a
Partition number (1-4): 1
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 3
Hex code (type L to list codes): 82
Changed system type of partition 3 to 82 (Linux swap)
Command (m for help): v
62 unallocated sectors
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 264 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 51 409626 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 52 257 1654695 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 258 264 56227+ 82 Linux swap
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
_
At this point the HDD light starts up the same steady blinking.
Preessing alt+F3 shows:
init: started. Waiting for process 6.
Executing etc/rc auto
pid 12 exited, status=0.
Executing sbin/dbootstrap
pid 13 exited, status=1.
pid 15 exited, status=1.
Executing sbin/dbootstrap
_
So there are apparently no error messages.
Pressing alt F4 shows the SCSI initializations still:
<6>(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 15/0
<6>(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
<6>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions downloaded
<4>Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
<4>scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.11/3.2.4
<4> <Adaptec AHA294x SCSI host adapter>
<4>scsi : 1 host.
<4> Vendor: FUJITSU Model: M2915Q-512 Rev: 0134
<4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id0, lun 0
<6>(scsi0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
<4> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-4XCS Rev: 1.01
<4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
<6>(scsi0:2:0) Synchronous at 4.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
<4>scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
<4>SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4250695 [2075 MB] [2.1 GB]
<4>Partition check:
<4> sda:Dev 08:00 Sun disklabel: bad magic 0000
<4> unknown partition table
<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<4>UFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
_
This has some things that look odd. "Failed initialization of
WD-7000 SCSI card!" doesn't make sense since it has already
determained this is an Adaptec device. After that, the speed of the
hard drive is reported as synchrounous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec when the
maximum this can be set at in the SCSI utility is synchrounous 10
Mbyte/sec. Both HDD and CD-ROM are set to this maximum speed in the
SCSI utility.
The rest looks fine as far as I can tell. There is no partion table
on this disk currently because I performed a low level format using
the SCSI utility (part of the card's firmware). I had the same
problems with the disk after formating with the WIN95 utilities and
deleting all the DOS partitions with that fdisk.
Thank you for any help you can give.
--
Valerie Norton
norton@chem.ucsb.edu
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Subject: bugs closed in potato boot-floppies
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 03 May 2000 13:21:19 -0400
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We believe that the bug you reported has been closed in the Potato
version of the boot-floppies. We may not have received a response
from you so we are closing this bug.
Please let us know if you find that the bug still exists in the potato
version of the boot-floppies, and we can re-open your bug.
Note that there are some temporary but serious problems with those
floppies you should know about on i386:
- installation of base from floppy probably not working
- the compact flavor may not work
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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