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BluntBox

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Registered: 2008-04-28

Posts: 7

[Solved]IDE Drive mounting problem.

Hey all, I've got an annoying problem with one of my IDE drives.

Basically I just can't get it to mount, during boot up I get a few errors:

end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
...
ata2: EH complete
 unable to read partition table

Corrupt partition table, simple enough? I wish. I can mount the drive without error in both my Windows and Ubuntu 7.10 install. Which leads me to think it dislikes using the PATA driver or whatever the change was in later kernels.

The really puzzling part is that I can wipe the drive and create a new partition with parted, then mount it manually and copy data to it. But as soon as I reboot I am back the start, getting I/O errors and can't mount.

A couple of guys on IRC were saying to rmmod the pata drivers and modprobe the ide ones, but I have no experience with either of those functions. And from what I can see there is like 15 different IDE drives I could choose from, so have no idea what I should be doing.

Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by BluntBox (2008-05-02 06:27:42)

BluntBox

Member

Registered: 2008-04-28

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved]IDE Drive mounting problem.

Well as insane as this seems to me, removing the jumper on drive and making it cable select fixed it...