Hello forum
I'm stuck with a problem here, that had me go "umm.wtf?" about 2 hrs yesterday. After doing some (unsuccessful) googling on it, I've decided, that if I don't get an answer here, there is none
I am running Debian Sarge (Linux version 2.6.14-2-k7-smp (Debian 2.6.14-2bpo1) ) on a machine with a SiS 182 SATA controller. It has two identical disks hooked up to it. sata_sis is compiled statically into the kernel and recognizes the disks as follows:
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sata_sis: Detected SiS 182 chipset
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1CB0 ctl 0x1CA6 bmdma 0x1C90 irq 9
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1CA8 ctl 0x1CA2 bmdma 0x1C98 irq 9
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:be01 87:4023 88:40ff
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA7, 156301488 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : sata_sis
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:be01 87:4023 88:40ff
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA7, 156301488 sectors: lba48
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : sata_sis
Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG HD080HJ Rev: ZH10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG HD080HJ Rev: ZH10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
fine so far. when I list the partitions on /dev/sdb using fdisk /dev/sdb, it looks like this:
Code:
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux
fine so far. After all, I've partitioned that myself.
NOW... when I try a mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1, mkfs returns:
Code:
golf612:~# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
Could not stat /dev/sdb1 --- Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (transl.: file or directory not found)
Das Gerät scheint nicht zu existieren, haben Sie es richtig angegeben? (transl.: The device doesn't seem to exist - did you type it correctly?)
Now, that's where I started to be like "wtf?". Writing raw content (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb) onto the drive works. hdparm -t -T /dev/sdb works. I just can't create a filesystem on it. Help?
