Re: Nvidia SATA - Seagate SATA Drives

Jim Gifford
2007-10-10T15:50:50Z

Robert Hancock wrote:
> 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?
I thought that also, just tried a new power supply, same problem. I can
recreate this problem within minutes with a new drive. Got 2 more drives
left in this batch. Temperature is in the low range of the specs.