On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:47:46PM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > Is there something wrong with the sata drivers or the disk, or lvm2 from > sid? This seems to be a kernel thing: after kill -9'ing a bunch of hung pvcreate processes one of them succeeded in a second on 2.6.30. On 2.6.26 all pvcreate's work like a charm with this hardware combo. -Mikko