Fedora 8 can't read parition table sata drives

[Boyd Kelly]

Hello,

I have recently been upgrading my kernel from fc7 to fc8.  I am able to boot from Fedora (2.6.20-1.2949.fc7). But I cannot boot from vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-26.fc8 or from the fedora 7.92 rescue CD.  When I boot from the CD, it does recognize my boot drive (/dev/sdb), but not the partitions on the drive.  I did note in the faq to put options libata ignore_hpa=1 into my modprob.conf file, and rebuilt a new initrd, but this did not work either.  Also when booting from the 7.92 rescue CD i get following ominous dmesg output:

sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Scsi parity error
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
Dev sdb: unable to read RDB block 0
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk


At least I can still boot under fc7, but it would be nice to move forward.  Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks very much,

Boyd

Please note my controller, and loaded modules under the fc7 kernel.  Entire dmesg under 7.92 rescue cd is attached.

[root at workstation boot]# lspci | grep ATA
00:10.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP04 Serial ATA Controller (rev f2)
00:11.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP04 Serial ATA Controller (rev f2)


[root at workstation ~]# lsmod | grep ata
ata_generic            12101  0 
pata_amd               16845  6 
sata_nv                24005  1 
libata                112869  3 ata_generic,pata_amd,sata_nv
scsi_mod              141101  4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod



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