From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Battraw Subject: Re: Problems with SiL3114 and WDC WD2500SD-01K Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:40:21 -0500 Message-ID: <1124678422.4075.3.camel@rambo.fortresscode.com> References: <1124581007.5764.10.camel@rambo.fortresscode.com> <4307CE8B.1030403@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:24975 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751315AbVHVXC1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:02:27 -0400 Received: from 12-203-209-98.client.insightBB.com (12-208-38-136.client.insightBB.com [12.208.38.136]) by zeus1.kernel.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7M2et6k002160 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:40:55 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4307CE8B.1030403@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Hi Tejun, Thanks for the reply. I've tried different PCI slots, different ports, different cables, and lastly, win98 DOS. DOS is able to partition and format the drive without a problem, and I copied files over, etc. without any errors. Are there any diagnostics or tests I can run to get a better idea of what's going on? Larry On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 09:44 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Larry. > > Larry Battraw wrote: > > I installed a SiL3114-based PCI card (Syba) and Western Digital > > WD2500SD in my system recently and haven't been able to get the system > > to write/read any data from the drive beyond the initial drive probe. > > Are you positive that it's not a hardware problem? Can you please try > the followings? > > * another port > * another cable > * try to use them in Windows :-( > > It seems that there are considerable number of crappy cables and > controllers out in the wild these days, and, combined with currently > not-so-robust error recovery of libata, they tend to result in unusable > state. >