Not sure what your problem is but I suggest you enter the SCSI BIOS at boot-up and carry out a complete low-level format of the disk from there (and verification / re-mapping of faulty sectors) if you have the time. Then re-try your installation.
BTW, I always do this before a new installation in case any new bad sectors have turned up.
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-----Original Message----- Message: 2 From: jamie.french@talk21.com To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:53:26 GMT+00:00 Subject: [Alug] RH 7.3 Install
Hi Guys,
After downloading RH7.3 and conducted a linux mediacheck when at partitioning stage I receive the following error "Partition table on device sda was unreadable. Initialize this drive Yes/No." By selecting Yes the following error occured "no valid devices were found to create new filesystems". Thus the system kills sessions and reboots.
By checking system messages (ctrl+alt+F4) at various points I can determine that the SCSI card and devices where detected.
Though after receiving the final error messege the following system message appears a number of time "parity error detected in data-in phase".
Please bear in mind this machine has been running SuSe without any difficulties.
Machine Spec:
Supermicro P6SBU 196MB Onboard AIC-7890 SCSI ULTRA2/LVD Seagate 9GB LVD
Any help would be great as I am trying to learn this sh*t.
Take Care,
Jamie
Best Regards,
Jamie French