scsi problems

[Mark Hedges]

I earlier wrote:
> However fai still does not write the disk_var file.
> It is strange.  class/S03hwdetect.source does not appear to call
> disk_info and so it never writes /tmp/fai/disk_var.sh .
> Now I appear to have this problem with an IDE-only unit.
> Hmmm, /proc/partitions was empty when S03hwdetect.source ran.
> But setup_harddisks found disk info in /proc/partitions.
> Apparently this IDE bus or this disk does not activate
> unless polled.  I added "sfdisk -g -q" to the top of
> S03hwdetect.source, and this filled out /proc/partitions.
> Maybe this will work with the SCSI unit, too.

This ended up being a bad disk.  Anyone not fortunate to ride on
a grant should add "-c" to $mke2fs_options in setup_harddisks.
;-)

--mark--