Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932227AbWBFQ6p (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 11:58:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932230AbWBFQ6p (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 11:58:45 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.202]:65336 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932227AbWBFQ6o convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 11:58:44 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=pN8TIrCSUtzc7a2wCVg+r8wetfBC0FEcsV/OyZaY2g5ZKcgUn4BluJguFgw/JJeNDOQlU9D+Si1/nUlS0zVSfX9wccqbMKHKkN1y2JFDVK34X1SHxSNaqUgNbICx0ABmeNVYpFvTEhHDt8ebrx07yWhwq700cNq3p3IqXk4YWbw= Message-ID: <5a2cf1f60602060858x268cd05fud533ee554fb2db5a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:58:41 +0100 From: jerome lacoste To: lkml Subject: EVMS & SATA failure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1684 Lines: 47 Hi, Trying to recover from a disk failure [1], we: - installed a fresh ubuntu 5.10 (modified kernel 2.6.12) on a new disk - stopped machine - connected failing SATA disk to board (in order to try to recover some data) - rebooted That doesn't work at all: * Setting up LVM Volumne Groups * Starting Enterprise Volume Management System... ata4: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI SK/ASC Buffer I/O error on device dm-3, logical block 1 ata4: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI SK/ASC Buffer I/O error on device dm-3, logical block 2 ata4: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI SK/ASC Buffer I/O error on device dm-3, logical block 3 ata4: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI SK/ASC Buffer I/O error on device dm-3, logical block 4 ata4: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI SK/ASC Buffer I/O error on device dm-3, logical block 5 ata4: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI SK/ASC Buffer I/O error on device dm-3, logical block 6 .... And the boot doesn't go further, the error messages keep looping from block 0 to 12. As I am trying to minimize my number of reboots (to not stress my failing disk), maybe someone has an idea what those messages could mean? Is that due to my failing disk? Is it some sort of SATA configuration issue? Or is there an EVMS issue? Otherwise I will prevent the EVMS daemon from starting at boot and see if that fixes my issue. Cheers, Jerome [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/10/397 - 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/