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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 09:07:26
Message-Id: 20100529085605.GA5786@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet? by Andrea Conti
1 Andrea Conti <alyf@××××.net> [10-05-29 10:08]:
2 > > ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA
3 > > ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in
4 > > res 51/84:4f:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
5 > > ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
6 > > ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
7 > > ata1: soft resetting link
8 > > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
9 > > ata1: EH complete
10 > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
11 >
12 > I think you have driver issues. Might also be the cabling, but I doubt
13 > it as faulty SATA cables are in my experience quite rare.
14 >
15 > WD drives are known not to get along too well with VIA SATA1 controllers:
16 >
17 > http://www.viaarena.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38871
18 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-794855.html
19 >
20 > What kernel version are you using?
21 > What does the kernel say when it first detects the disk?
22 >
23 > Do you get the same errors under a recent kernel (try the latest gentoo
24 > install cd) ?
25 >
26 > My experience with WD "advanced format" drives has been positive so far,
27 > especially considering how cheap they are... The only gripe I have is
28 > that they report not only having a 512B *logical* sector size in the
29 > response to ATA INFO commands (which is fine, as they have a translation
30 > layer), but also a 512B *physical* sector size, which is wrong and
31 > causes partitioning tools to use the wrong alignment.
32 > All the five 1TB drives I have behave this way, and from what I read
33 > this is not an isolated behavior...
34 >
35 > andrea
36 >
37
38 Hi Andrea,
39
40 I tried these kernels (all vanilla):
41 2.6.32.13
42 2.6.33.5
43 2.6.34.0
44
45 This is, what I cut from the dmegs out (I hope to get all relevant
46 infos...if you missing something, I save the complete dmesg output to
47 disk for later refrence...):
48
49 sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 2.6
50 sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: PCI INT B -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
51 sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 10
52 scsi0 : sata_via
53 PM: Adding info for scsi:host0
54 PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
55 scsi1 : sata_via
56 PM: Adding info for scsi:host1
57 PM: Adding info for No Bus:host1
58 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xd000 ctl 0xc800 bmdma 0xb800 irq 20
59 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xc400 ctl 0xc000 bmdma 0xb808 irq 20
60 pata_via 0000:00:0f.1: version 0.3.4
61 pata_via 0000:00:0f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
62 scsi2 : pata_via
63 PM: Adding info for scsi:host2
64 PM: Adding info for No Bus:host2
65 scsi3 : pata_via
66 PM: Adding info for scsi:host3
67 PM: Adding info for No Bus:host3
68 ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xfc00 irq 14
69 ata4: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xfc08 irq 15
70 skge 0000:00:0a.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
71 skge 0000:00:0a.0: PCI: Disallowing DAC for device
72 skge: 1.13 addr 0xf9c00000 irq 17 chip Yukon-Lite rev 9
73 PM: Adding info for No Bus:eth0
74 skge 0000:00:0a.0: eth0: addr 00:15:f2:18:b0:20
75 sky2: driver version 1.27
76 usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
77
78 Aligment:
79
80 I used
81
82 fdisk -cu -S 56 /dev/sda
83
84 to align my partitions, which seems to work.
85
86 Do I have to replace my motherboard/graphics card/RAM/...
87 only because WD cannot talk to and/or vice versa?
88
89 By the way:
90 Can I use PCI cards on newer motherboards with PCIe-slots???
91
92 Best regards,
93 mcc
94
95
96
97 --
98 Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments
99 unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text.
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101 In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.

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