From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422790AbWI2UVU (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:21:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422800AbWI2UVU (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:21:20 -0400 Received: from lixom.net ([66.141.50.11]:31431 "EHLO mail.lixom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422790AbWI2UVT (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:21:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:20:40 -0500 From: Olof Johansson To: Timur Tabi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: SATA: "unknown partition table" error, fdisk can't fix, works in 2.6.13 Message-ID: <20060929152040.6b7c4e3c@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <451D7DE8.8020504@freescale.com> References: <451D7DE8.8020504@freescale.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0-rc3 (GTK+ 2.10.3; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:11:20 -0500 Timur Tabi wrote: > I have a SATA drive attached to a PowerPC 8349E board, using the SIL 3114 controller. I'm running the latest code from Paul Mackerras (PowerPC maintainer) (2.6.18-blabla). > > I'm experiencing a number of I/O errors with the SATA drive. fdisk can see the partition table, but when I issue the "w" command, I get this output: > > The odd thing is that this works in 2.6.13, so something is broken. I don't know if it's a bug in the sata_sil driver, or a configuration issue. Can anyone help? > Do you use MSDOS or MAC partition (or other) type? Make sure you have the one you use in the config. It looks like the arch/powerpc/configs/mpc83* defconfigs enable neither. -Olof