Re: partition table problem with 2.4.21-rc7

Luca Montecchiani (luca.montecchiani@teamfab.it)
Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:23:08 +0200


Narayan Desai ha scritto:

> When i boot 2.4.21-rc7, i get the error:
> Partition check:
> hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6
> unable to read partition table
>
> after this, the system is able to mount a partition on this disk
> properly. can anyone shed any light on this? This didn't happen with
> pre3. btw, devfs is enabled, if that makes any difference. a config is
> attached.

I've have that annoying messages too and I've verified that the
source of the problem is :

> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m

the ide code check the partition-table twice, but the first
time without the ide-disk module and so the error...

Alan ?

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