Guest Zach Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 (edited) Hi everyone, I am upgrading from 2006, and am having some trouble. I have 2 seagate cheetahs, and for some reason 2007 will not let me install onto the first disk (sda). It is not even an option in the partitioner. I checked out the kernel log and apparently the kernel complained about bad sectors on sda. Making sure this wasnt a hardware problem, I swapped the 2 drives around on the chain, and the same thing still happens? What Gives? 2006 still detects both without a hitch, but no matter what drives I have as the first on the channel it fails consistantly. I even popped in my Ultrastar with the same results. Is there a fix for this issue? I would like to continue to stick with Mandriva, but this is making my head hurt. -Zach I should add that I am using an LSI 1030 SCSI controller, and the bios is up to date. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As it turns out, for some reason 2007 didn't like the way I had my drives connected. I simply reversed the connection on the chain, starting from the last drive to the first, and bam, everything works. Very wierd, especially because 2006 had no problem with it whatsoever. I tried fedora core 6 this morning and had the same problem with mandriva 2007. Fedora also works now.. Wierd. Thanks for your suggestions. Zach Edited December 5, 2006 by Zach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 There's been quite a lot of posts on here about sata disk problems. You mention a SCSI controller, so are your disks SCSI then? Or sata? Or IDE? Reason I ask is you mention hda, which is for IDE disks. SDA is usually sata/scsi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 cheetahs are SCSI. the hda was probably the cd drive? maybe it was a bad burn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zach Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 cheetahs are SCSI. the hda was probably the cd drive? maybe it was a bad burn. Oops that was a typo, i'm sorry. Bad sectors on sda. Yes they are SCSI drives, not SATA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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