Re: Kernel 2.6.32-22-generic sata problems

[Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>]

On 06/07/2010 12:34 PM, DanVolkman wrote:
>
> Thank you guys for responding to me email.
>
> I did what you asked and it was nice to be able to see what messages
> were being generated. In my debugging efforts I made one mistake, I
> replaced the motherboard with the exact same brand/model motherboard
> (different firmware though), I wish I would have had a different one
> around the house. Anyway, it appears that the one month old drive I had
> mounted failed and happened to coincide with the OS upgrade. I was not
> using that drive and something seems suspicious because this is the
> second new drive that has failed and these are drives from a reputable
> company. With the changes in place you recommended I saw:
>
> ata3.01: status: { DRDY ERR }
> ata3.01: error: { UNC }
> ata3.01: configured for UDMA/133
> ata3: EH complete
>
> This code would loop with occasional other messages. I unhooked my good
> drive and used the Ubuntu distribution CD and booted up into "try
> Ubuntu" mode and used the disk utility and it said the drive was bad. I
> am not sure if this is a drive problem or a motherboard problem, maybe I
> will replace both. Yes, I did try different SATA cables and sockets.

Probably not a motherboard problem, but could be a power supply issue - 
or maybe the drive is overheating causing premature failure.

>
> Anyway, sorry to bother you guys but you did help me identify the problem.
>
> Dan
> DanVolkman@gmail.com
>
>
> On 10-06-06 12:49 AM, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> On 06/05/2010 08:45 AM, DanVolkman wrote:
>>> SYNOPSES
>>> ==========
>>> Kernel fails to boot when multiple SATA drives are connected. After a
>>> day of working on the problem (changing cables, sata positions,
>>> motherboards, CPUs, power supplies, etc.) I discovered that with only
>>> the boot drive connected everything worked fine.
>>>
>>> BACKGROUND
>>> =============
>>> I had a career in UNIX so it is common for me to use cpio(1), tar(1),
>>> dump(1), and dd(1) to replicate disks but have not been able to do so
>>> with two SATA disks connected using older kernels but with this new
>>> kernel I could not even have the second disk connected.
>>>
>>> PROBLEM APPEARED WHEN
>>> ======================
>>> An Ubuntu kernel update stopped my computer from booting. I have no
>>> backup computer so my description is sketchy because I was not willing
>>> to use a pencil and write the lengthy terse information. Boot error
>>> message was something like:
>>>
>>> Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:0f106d71e58
>>> ...
>>> ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/..... does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
>>
>> Can you get any of the libata messages showing up on the console? You
>> might need to change grub options to boot with more debug displayed
>> (don't know how to do that offhand on Ubuntu).
>>
>