Hi Tejun, Thanks for the reply. I've tried different PCI slots, different ports, different cables, and lastly, win98 DOS. DOS is able to partition and format the drive without a problem, and I copied files over, etc. without any errors. Are there any diagnostics or tests I can run to get a better idea of what's going on?
Larry On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 09:44 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Larry. > > Larry Battraw wrote: > > I installed a SiL3114-based PCI card (Syba) and Western Digital > > WD2500SD in my system recently and haven't been able to get the system > > to write/read any data from the drive beyond the initial drive probe. > > Are you positive that it's not a hardware problem? Can you please try > the followings? > > * another port > * another cable > * try to use them in Windows :-( > > It seems that there are considerable number of crappy cables and > controllers out in the wild these days, and, combined with currently > not-so-robust error recovery of libata, they tend to result in unusable > state. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
