Re: sata disk failure?

[Guillaume Laurès <guillaume.laures@club-internet.fr>]

Thanks for your help Jeff.

During my experiments I plugged an unpluged the drive numerous times. I  
also tried another SATA cable, but same thing. Even on the other  
motherboard SATA plug. I closely examined the drive and it seems right.  
like new in fact. The motherboard is even newer, and so is the cable.

Is your idea consistent with the fact that the drive is _alays_  
recognized in the bios, and _always_ recognized in linux ? All the time  
it fails with the messages "nv_sata: Primary/Secondary device removed"  
a few seconds after the console promt is displayed. Sometimes I have  
the time to mount the drive, sometimes not even.

Later,

GoM

Le 15 févr. 05, à 17:50, Jeff Garzik a écrit :

> Guillaume Laurès wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Here is a small report in attachement, done with 2.6.11-rc4.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > --
> >  * Hardware is nforce3 250GB, booting debian pure64 on pata (Maxtor  
> > 30Gb 6E030L0) drive. The goal is to mount data found on a sata disk  
> > (seagate 200Gb ST3200822AS). The pata drive holds / and lvm partition  
> > with /usr, /var /tmp and /home.
> > The ultimate goal is to switch all this to the sata drive, which  
> > already holds a (barely used) swap partition.
> >  * Soon after boot the console displays:
> > nv_sata: Primary device removed
> > nv_sata: Primary device removed
> > nv_sata: Primary device removed
> > nv_sata: Primary device removed
> > ...
> > nv_sata: Primary device removed
> > nv_sata: Primary device removed
> > nv_sata: Primary device removed
> > nv_sata: Primary device removed
> > nv_sata: Primary device removed
> > nv_sata: Primary device added
> > nv_sata: Primary device added
> > and the sata disk seems to spin down at the same time.
> > This is currently on 2.6.11-rc4, although I got the same behaviour  
> > with 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-rc3. Removing power from the drive and pluging  
> > it again seems to make te drive work some time , until it spins down  
> > again...
>
> Seems like the hotplug code is triggering.  That signals to me there  
> is some connection problem.  Maybe you have a bad cable, or maybe the  
> cable is just seated improperly in one of the two SATA plugs.
>
> It's also possible your motherboard or drive SATA plug is faulty, but  
> I would replace the cable first.
>
> 	Jeff
>
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