Re: Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

>>     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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