Hmmmm, that should have been good enough, but I guess they could have put it in the middle. It's not unheard of. Like I said, something is triggering that device mapper on your drive, so there has to be something on the drive that it likes. Brian Cluff On 10/18/2012 07:04 PM, Stephen wrote: > Generally i run the quick zero which is the first and last 300mb i hiess > the next step is finding a home for the data and the 10+ hours to zero > the long way. > > On Oct 18, 2012 6:45 PM, "Brian Cluff" > wrote: > > Did you zero the drive all the way to the end, or just the first > part. Also maybe you zeroed the partition and not the drive? Many of > the raid superblocks are at the very end of the drive, and it would > still be catching them if you haven't done the whole thing. > > I really think this is whats happening since the Device Mapper is > trying to grab hold of it. > > Brian Cluff > > On 10/18/2012 12:50 PM, Stephen wrote: > > well 4 of the 6 drives involved are actively part of a raid. > the one > i am using for Linux was already 0ed for that very reason, i do > still > have a usb HDD still attached so i will try disconnecting that. > > odd thing is i was able to boot a 10.10x64 no issue and installed > there and have been doing dist-upgrades to current. i will take > a 2nd > look but its is really puzzling. > > I will certainly have to keep an eye out. I haven't even figured out > how i'm going to configure grub yet to get multiple boot set up. > i may > leave it ghetto and just use bios. > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Brian Cluff > wrote: > > The fact that the device mapper is getting involved with the > drive leads me > to believe that the drive was part of a raid, or at least > configured by your > raid controller at one time and there is now a superblock on > it that is > messing up everything. > You'll probably need to zero out that superblock before > things will start to > behave correctly. > > Brian Cluff > > > On 10/17/2012 07:42 PM, Stephen wrote: > > > I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get ubuntu > to boot right > now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble ironing > out what is > going on. > > I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard raid > chipset > (SB710) however i am not intending to install to those > drives the > drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA connected > single drive > but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04 to > even finish its > boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback. > > The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]: > HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for > '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument > - this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid > turned off in > bios. just a single SATA HDD > > I get one of the two following errors if i have raid > disks attached > > A similar entry as above comes up or i get > udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10) failed: > No Such file or > directory > > the most promising option i have so far is booting with > nodmraid but > it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting my > CDrom devices > > This is rather perplexing overall. > > Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be connected > running > windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata hdd > but it either > is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or it > really does > not like that port. > > Anyone have any thoughts? > > > ------------------------------__--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.__phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.__us/mailman/listinfo/plug-__discuss > > > > > > > ------------------------------__--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.__phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.__us/mailman/listinfo/plug-__discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss