Re: Nvidia SATA - Seagate SATA Drives

From: Robert Hancock
Date: Wed Oct 10 2007 - 11:14:04 EST


Jim Gifford wrote:
Robert Hancock wrote:
Jim Gifford wrote:
Here's the situation. I have a MSI KN8Neo-f motherboard with a Seagate Barracuda 250 GB SATA drive. I have replaced this drive three times in the last two weeks due to it failing. Now the only thing in common is the use of a 2.6.22.9 kernel I built from scratch, before that I was using 2.6.19 kernel but working on doing some upgrades for the CLFS project and tried a 2.6.22.9. I will explain the situation and including the links I used for fix the issues.

It boots up and instantly has a problem detecting so I have to add irqpoll to my bootup line. {Reference http://my.opera.com/snowburn/blog/index.dml/tag/failed%20to%20set%20xfermode} Then I get the adma issue, so I add sata_nv.adma=0 to my bootup line.{Reference http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.1/1424.html}

Now after a few times of booting the drive completely fails. So is the nv_sata drive the cause?? Based on what I have done yes, and the reason I can say that is because I took another one of those drives and the same computer loaded Windows(forgive me for using this word!!!) on it and it worked perfectly.

You'll have to be more specific about "completely fails".. Also, it would be useful to get the dmesg output from dmesg directly and not from syslog, as the entries posted under the second link you gave were missing some critical information (it seems that syslog can do this in some cases..) In particular the line showing what command failed would be useful.
It never gets into the system at all, just locks up. The hard drive starts clicking and eventually doesn't get recognized by BIOS.

That doesn't sound like a kernel problem if it's not even recognized by the BIOS, there's nothing the kernel should be able to do that could cause that. Sounds more like a hardware issue. If the drive has been replaced before then it could be a power supply or temperature problem?
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