Re: Nvidia SATA - Seagate SATA Drives

Jim Gifford
2007-10-10T14:35:11Z

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.
>
> Using "irqpoll" is not a very good workaround, it really is just a
> band-aid to get things working. Often this indicates motherboard IRQ
> routing issues. You may want to make sure you have the latest BIOS
> installed for the board.
I'll check for a new BIOS, but believe I have the most current on it.
>
>>
>> One other issue that showed up was the drive does not recognize the
>> drive when it's in the 3gb transfer mode, I have to jumper it to
>> 1.5gb mode.
>>
>> Here's a link to the drive model:
>> http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a62099f4fa74c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&locale=en-US
>>
>> Here's a link to my motherboard:
>> http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8N_Neo4-F&class=mb
>> It has 2GB of Memory and a Nvidia PCI-E Graphics Adapter
>>
>> I will work with any member of the lkml team to help isolate the
>> issue, the only issue is that when it locks up everything has to be
>> written down or photographed.
>