On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Larry Linder
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>
> On Tuesday October 6 2015 11:07 am, Larry Linder wrote:
>> First step was to remove the 5th disk from the system.  I was mounted as
>> /sde1 After this is complete the install finished with out a problem.
>>
>> A long time ago we ran into this problem and it had to do with the number
>> of devices.
>> We used to run 32 SCSI drives on a server using two 16 device cards and
>> when the high speed serial stuff came out we were suddenly limited to 6
>> devices. - This from memory.
>>
>> The 5 SATA drives + DVD as a SATA drive is 6  Mother board is labeled 0  ->
>> 5 all ports are used.  We unplugged cable from 5th disk and the install
>> went normally.
>> It accepts sda1 - sda12, sdb1, sdc1, sdd1 and the DVD drive in 5th slot.
>>
>> Larry Linder
>>
>> On Monday October 5 2015 7:37 pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> > First step is "stop partitioning and getting cutesy with your layout at
>> > install time." Adding extra disks and software configs, especially the
>> > /mysql that may conflict with SELinux, is begging for trouble at install
>> > time. See if you can bring it alive with a bare installation, on sda
>> > only.
>> >
>> > Nico Kadel-Garcia
>> > Email: [log in to unmask]
>> > Sent from iPhone
>> >
>> > > On Oct 5, 2015, at 12:53, Larry Linder
>> > > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Dear Sir:
>> > >
>> > > We are building a new server and decided to use SL 6.7
>> > > The system is a quad core AMD with 32 G Ram and 5 T bytes of disk
>> > > space. The OS is installed on the sda1 - 10
>> > > /engr is installed on sdb1
>> > > /mysql is install on sdc1
>> > > /backup01 is on sdd1
>> > > /backup02 is on sde1
>> > >
>> > > The install progresses normally till it get to sde1
>> > >    it appears to finish the format correctly and
>> > >    when it come time to mount the device we get the following:
>> > >
>> > > "An ERROR Occurred Mounting /dev/sde1  /backup02 mount failed (9,none)
>> > > This is a fatal error and install cannot continue."
>> > >
>> > > Disk and cable have been swapped,  Port has been swapped.  Problem does
>> > > not follow port or hardware.
>> > > The first time it occurred Saturday we were able to do a walk back but
>> > > were not able to save anything as network had not been configured, but
>> > > we could do a walk back but couldn't  file a bug report.
>> > > The thing we noticed is that the second argument of all functions was
>> > > empty. Meaning a void !!! or a null string ??
>> > >
>> > > Second time with a known good disk for sde and another port on mother
>> > > board the error occurred again.
>> > >
>> > > The third time with new disk sde, cable, port it gave the same error
>> > > message but with Network set up so we could capture the problem.  This
>> > > time we were not able to do a walk back.  The only option was to reboot
>> > > and we are back to square 1.
>> > >
>> > > Any Ideas would be appreciated.
>> > >
>> > > Thank You
>> > > Larry Linder
>
> What we have tried.
> The downloaded DVD was error checked before we began this exercise so we are
> certain that the DVD set is good.
>
> The 5th. disk was connected to different port on mother board and if we limit
> the number of disks to 4 + DVD drive it works and install completes.
> We are convinced the Hardware suite is VALID.  The other output ports were
> vacated when removing a disk.
>
> This try we selected default on SL 6.7 to automatically set it up and use LVM
> to assign disk.   It proceeded normally and when it gets to sde1 we get an
> error message that it cannot format disk.   This disk will work as sdb sdc
> sdd.
> The walk back did not give a clue except that the second argument to function
> is null. or null string as in other tries.

From your descriptions, you seem to be insisting on activating the
fifth disk at installation time. Please stop trying to activate
anything but the first disk for the "/" partition at install time, and
add the other disks later. Both LVM and resize2fs support this if you
need a merged array.

Installing just the OS, itself, at installation time gives you access
to kernel updates that may not be in 6.7, and should allow you to
activate the other components after the initial installation. This may
not be pretty, but it avoids any subtle bugs in the anaconda
installation suite.

It's clear from your note that  the "4 SATA porta, plus a 5fth one"
are not on the same controller and the 5ifth disk is on the
motherboard. Testing the motherboard SATA for compatibility means
*swapping* connectors, not just connecting the fifth one to a
different location or disconnecting.

You should also be able to use the live DVD to boot the system up and
see if all the drives are visible and can be partitioned and write
enabled, which may provide more informaiton.

> When in manual disk setup  there at least it formats sde but will not mount
> it.  Same walk back info but the error is now it cannot mount disk

Please: stop trying to format anything but sda at installation time. I
really suspect it's a big part of your problem.

> Next we will try 5.11 on this hardware and see if it works.
> another test is to install BSD.  Other people who use BSD report that they
> have mounted 99 devices with out a problem.
>
> This box is not connected to our network as it is used all day.  Will connect
> it Saturday and see if we can file a bug report.
>
> Larry Linder
>