Re: sata disk failure?

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Guillaume Laurès wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here is a small report in attachement, done with 2.6.11-rc4.
> 
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>  * 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