Re: Nvidia SATA - Seagate SATA Drives

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

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?