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Post subject: Big problem partitioning SATA HD
 Posted: Oct 04, 2008 - 04:41 AM
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| I am running an Intel Duocore 1596 MHz that has a Via VT6420 raid controller for 2 sata hd connections. I have tried 2 different HD on each connection with the same result. I can partition them fine with Maxblast 5, but fdisk, gpart both cannot seem to partition them into ext3 partitions even though sata hd is readily detected by both. Is there something that I need to install or configure to get linux to communicate with the sata, or is it a case of a known problem and I just have to have some patience until a solution can be found. |
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Post subject: RE: Big problem partitioning SATA HD
Posted: Oct 05, 2008 - 09:58 AM
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LRC wrote:
I am running an Intel Duocore 1596 MHz that has a Via VT6420 raid controller for 2 sata hd connections. I have tried 2 different HD on each connection with the same result. I can partition them fine with Maxblast 5, but fdisk, gpart both cannot seem to partition them into ext3 partitions even though sata hd is readily detected by both. Is there something that I need to install or configure to get linux to communicate with the sata, or is it a case of a known problem and I just have to have some patience until a solution can be found.
Hi
Seems to be a bug:----
exactly the same problem,
I reported it in Ourea bugs, but they said they could do nix unless I supplied screenshots etc.
So not so keen to fix, not so good for the live dvd progress.
The gparted iive cd fixed my sata drive and partitioned it OK as 2x ext3 partitions and swap.
I tend not to use reiser formatting after the Hans Reiser affair, blood on his hands.
More reports, best in Ourea bugs section on the forum please for action here.
Best
El Zorro. |
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Posted: Oct 05, 2008 - 02:40 PM
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| Some motherboards need to have the SATA bus mode set as AHCI mode in BIOS. |
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Posted: Oct 10, 2008 - 03:01 AM
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Update. Upon farther investigation, The mobo is using a VT 8237 bridge and a VT6420 RAID controller. My BIOS had set the SATA at SATA/IDE, I tried setting it to SATA RAID (coming up with a "If you want to install Linux Default partition RAID driver, please DO NOT use OPROM creation operation." (If any one knows what that means, please inform, because google does not bring up anythng useful.)
I am still getting the same result. I am starting to believe that it has something to do with VIA 'fakeraid'. Does ayone know of a work around for this problem? |
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Posted: Oct 21, 2008 - 03:51 PM
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| Part of the problem is that the 'fakeraid' works at the 128 byte level, whereas the more resent gparted default is 256. There is another problem in that although using "mksf.ext3 -I 128" believes things are fine, fdisk comes up with a 'doesn't contain a valid partition table' error. Running either fsck or e2fsck looks like it is fixing a bunch of errors (the errors are different each time run) fdisk still comes back with the same error. Will just have to wait until hopefully things get better. |
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