Subject: Re: [PATCH/2.6.17-rc4 10/10] bugs fix for marvell SATA on powerp c pl atform

From: Sven Luther <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 18:15:18 +0200

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 06:01:56PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Can you access the disk?  Eg.  hexdump -C /dev/sda
> 
> Trying to partition the disk with parted yielded the last set of debug
> messages, and a : 

Interesting. Using dd, i am able to write some stuff to disk :

dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/blah count=1 -> hexdump /tmp/blah yields only 0s.
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda count=4 (count = 4, because /dev/random outputs blocks of 128 bytes)
dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/blah count=1 -> hexdump /tmp/blah yield random non-0 content

Trying to write past the first block, seems to freeze the disk or someting, at
least dd doesn't come back without me ctr-c'ing it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther