https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138 User duwe@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138#c1 --- Comment #1 from Torsten Duwe 2008-01-02 08:23:27 MST --- Note that that parted command Yast claims to execute worked as expected, printing the current table and doing nothing else. Providing a few more files... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138 User duwe@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138#c3 --- Comment #3 from Torsten Duwe 2008-01-02 08:26:45 MST --- Created an attachment (id=189030) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=189030) broken MBR That's what the first block on the disk looks like afterwards -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138 User fehr@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138#c4 Thomas Fehr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |duwe@novell.com --- Comment #4 from Thomas Fehr 2008-01-07 03:13:21 MST --- Strange, from the log I could only see calls "/usr/sbin/parted -s /dev/sdb unit cyl print" and "/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb". Both should not change anything regarding content of disk sdb. Need access to the system to investigate this further. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138 User fehr@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138#c6 Thomas Fehr changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fehr@novell.com AssignedTo|fehr@novell.com |snwint@novell.com --- Comment #6 from Thomas Fehr 2008-01-07 07:47:15 MST --- I found that calling hwinfo --disk is enough to make the partitition table data temporarily go away. I could always get back to a sane state by calling: echo 1 > /sys/block/sdc/device/delete; rmmod sbp2; modprobe sbp2 The code executed by hwinfo --disk is also executed when yast2 is probing for harddisks. Steffen needs to have a look at this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138 User duwe@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138#c8 Torsten Duwe changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com |hare@novell.com --- Comment #8 from Torsten Duwe 2008-01-07 09:25:04 MST --- scsiinfo -s or scsiinfo -i both kill the first block on amd64. This also happens with a freshly compiled vanilla 2.6.23.12. Either this is a bug in the mainline kernel or the scsi utilities are not 64-bit-clean. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138 User hare@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138#c10 --- Comment #10 from Hannes Reinecke 2008-01-08 04:13:01 MST --- And I don't seem to be able to write to the drive anyway. Writing partition table works, but calling fdisk again doesn't return a valid table. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138 User duwe@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351138#c12 Torsten Duwe changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #12 from Torsten Duwe 2008-01-08 08:07:41 MST --- For the record: the FireWire interface chip is a Prolific PL-3507, Dated Week 23, Year 2006, revision 4C. A firmware update to http://www.prolific.com.tw/support/files/\IDE Storage\PL-3507\Firmware\fw_pl3507B_d042006.zip resolved the issue. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.