From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270402AbTGSP6g (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:58:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270403AbTGSP6g (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:58:36 -0400 Received: from 12-229-144-126.client.attbi.com ([12.229.144.126]:29314 "EHLO waltsathlon.localhost.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270402AbTGSP6b (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:58:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3F196E29.20606@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 09:13:29 -0700 From: Walt H User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030704 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ocran@gmx.net Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Promise fasttrack raid, changed disk, unable to boot. X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime 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 Paul, I recently ran across something similar after having received a warranty replacement drive. Mine turned out to be some real funky geometry being reported by the ide-disk layer. I came up with a fix, that worked for me, not sure how universal it is. See the thread at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105840994419059&w=2 My patch that is attached in the first message of the thread is not recommended, but the final simple fix worked also in my case. Does Linux perhaps see the other drive with strange geometry? You can check with cat /proc/ide/hd?/geometry In my case, the head count reported by Linux was 255, which was bogus and caused the problem. Hope this helps, -Walt