Hello
I have a linux box with a motherboard ASUS TL2C with linux FC7 and FC8 installed. On one of the pci port, I connected a raid adapter Via VT6421 and I connect one or two sata disks on the sata ports given by this adapter.
When linux boots, the adapter is recognized. I may enter in the bios, choose raid or no and when the system is booted I can see sata devices as sdc and/or sdd. here is the lspci output:
02:0b.0 RAID bus controller: VIA
Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem:
VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller
Flags: bus
master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
I/O ports at d800
[size=16]
I/O ports at d400 [size=16]
I/O ports at
d000 [size=16]
I/O ports at b800 [size=16]
I/O ports
at b400 [size=32]
I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at efe20000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [e0] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use:
sata_via
Kernel modules: sata_via
I format these/this sata disk with fdisk as follow:
# fdisk /dev/sdc
Disk
/dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801
cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk
identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks
Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux
and I use mkfs -j /dev/sdc1 to create the ext3 filesystem. Apparently it
works well
but, when I tried to label sdc1 or mount sdc1, the mountage is impossible and it tells me to give the FS type. In the message log file, I can see this message :
kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sdc1):
ext3_check_descriptors: Inode table for group 41 not in group (block
1310722)!
kernel: EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
I
use FC7 or FC8 (Linux version 2.6.23.9-85.fc8) and the problem is the same with
one or several disks. But this operation worked well on another computer with
another sata adapter and another disks.
Could you help me on this problem ? Are you aware of issues about Via sata problem with linux ?
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Jean-Philippe Battu
