setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hello Michael,

I've been away, so I'm not back to follow up on this.

Quoting Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org>:

> Could you do another run and run parted manually from the shell you  
> should get
> dropped into? Like so:
>
> parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print (should produce said error)
> parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos
> parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print (should work)
>
> I'm just a bit worried for two reasons: (i) I haven't seen this error before,
> blank disks should cause a somewhat different error, and (ii)  
> depending on your
> Xen configuration you may or may not have /dev/sda really available  
> and only see
> /dev/sda1 instead. (I'm using the latter configuration style myself.)
>

root at shibidp1:/# parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print
Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument
root at shibidp1:/# parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos
Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument
root at shibidp1:/# parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print
Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument
root at shibidp1:/# ls -l /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Dec 14 10:46 /dev/sda
root at shibidp1:/# ls -l /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Dec 14 10:46 /dev/sda1

I'm exporting a logical volume to the xen vm.  This logical volume is  
then the disk.

TIA!


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Rudy Gevaert          Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be          tel:+32 9 264 4734
Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur  Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept.
Groep Systemen                     Systems group
Universiteit Gent                  Ghent University
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