Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid

[Stephen]

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 at 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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