From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: sata disk failure? Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:50:33 -0500 Message-ID: <42122859.9060609@pobox.com> References: <420D5FAE.7040109@linux.it> <20050212155420.GA13468@harddisk-recovery.com> <170b0d7e63345e9b7dba9341a87a8a01@club-internet.fr> <20050213150102.GB13468@harddisk-recovery.com> <353ee8ef7c34573b3e1322ba7502c529@club-internet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:63927 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261790AbVBOQux (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:50:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <353ee8ef7c34573b3e1322ba7502c529@club-internet.fr> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Guillaume_Laur=E8s?= Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Erik Mouw , debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Guillaume Laur=E8s wrote: > Hello, >=20 > Here is a small report in attachement, done with 2.6.11-rc4. >=20 >=20 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------= --- >=20 > * Hardware is nforce3 250GB, booting debian pure64 on pata (Maxtor 3= 0Gb 6E030L0) drive. The goal is to mount data found on a sata disk (sea= gate 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 alre= ady holds a (barely used) swap partition. >=20 > * 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 wi= th 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= =2E.. Seems like the hotplug code is triggering. That signals to me there is= =20 some connection problem. Maybe you have a bad cable, or maybe the cabl= e=20 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= =20 would replace the cable first. Jeff