Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263234AbTFDLSV (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:18:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263239AbTFDLSU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:18:20 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:20611 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263234AbTFDLST (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:18:19 -0400 Subject: Re: partition table problem with 2.4.21-rc7 From: Alan Cox To: Luca Montecchiani Cc: Narayan Desai , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3EDD9E5C.9060902@teamfab.it> References: <87brxemtev.fsf@mcs.anl.gov> <3EDD9E5C.9060902@teamfab.it> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1054722814.9359.95.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 04 Jun 2003 11:33:37 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 21 On Mer, 2003-06-04 at 08:23, Luca Montecchiani wrote: > I've have that annoying messages too and I've verified that the > source of the problem is : > > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m > > the ide code check the partition-table twice, but the first > time without the ide-disk module and so the error... That would make sense. The drive is attached to the null driver at the point something tried to read the partition table initially. That errors all I/O requests since they are meaningless. I guess we shouldnt be partition probing those devices. I'll take a look - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/