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" <brian@snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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 <brian@snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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?
>
>
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