[Discuss] intel sata hardware RAID & FC3

[Lionel Widdifield]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:30:46PM -0700, R. Langkamer wrote:
> 
> 	I need some help on this subject. I'm building a dev server box for a 
> friend and it has an intel hardware RAID SATA card with two SATA drives 
> hooked up.
> 	I got FC3 installed but as soon as the kernel loads, the box beeps 
> which I take to mean "drive failure". When I look into /var/log/messages 
> I see this :
> 
> sda:Adapter 0: SATA-A, ID 0: An IO failed due to an unrecoverable media 
> error
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEC00 ctl 0xE802 bmdma 0xDC00 irq 185
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE002 bmdma 0xDC08 irq 185
> ata1: SATA port has no device
> ata2: SATA port has no device

 If that is all you get, then the reading of the partition table is failing.
ie. You can't read the drives, while the controller is recognized.

 
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