ATA, SATA Disk Problems

2008-01-16 Thread rgheck
Hi, and sorry if this turns out to be a known issue. Actually, I'll be thrilled if this turns out to be a known issue. But I've searched on it forever, and although I've found some information, I've not found a definite fix. Possibly my fault, but this is driving me nuts. System: Asus P5N32E

Re: SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-19 Thread rgheck
conf to the kernel boot options, as well as libata noacpi=1 to modules.conf, but now I've just had the problem again. I'm now thinking I should try eliminating the Plextor drive. It may be that it's the PATA drive that is causing all the trouble. I'll report if so. FYI, here

Re: ATA, SATA Disk Problems

2008-01-21 Thread rgheck
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, rgheck wrote: Hi, and sorry if this turns out to be a known issue. Actually, I'll be thrilled if this turns out to be a known issue. But I've searched on it forever, and although I've found some information, I've not found a definite fix. Possibl

Re: ATA, SATA Disk Problems

2008-01-21 Thread rgheck
: configured for MWDMA2 ata7: EH complete The sorts of errors I get when using the drive I've posted before. They're intermittent and so can be hard to capture, but I can try to post them again, too. Richard rgheck wrote: Hi, and sorry if this turns out to be a known issue. Actuall

Re: SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-24 Thread rgheck
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Jim MacBaine wrote: A co-worker, to whom I explained my problem, asked me whether I had properly grounded my drives. In fact I had not: The drives resided in a vibration-absorbing frame through which their exterior had no electrical contact with the grounded case. Sin

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread rgheck
Alan Cox wrote: not one problem but lots---is sufficiently widespread that a Mini HOWTO, say, would be really welcome and, I'm guessing, widely used. We don't see very many libata problems at the distro level and they for the most part boil down to - sata_nv with >4GB of RAM, knowing bein

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread rgheck
Mark Lord wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: .. Does anyone know why my dvdwriter isn't being assigned a '/dev/sdx' number when dmesg says its found ok at ata2.00? I've turned on an option that says something about using the bios for device access this build, but I'll be surprised if that's it. :)

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread rgheck
Alan Cox wrote: Is this >4GB or >=4GB? I've seen contradictory reports, and I've got 4GB. Depends how the memory is mapped. Any memory physically above the 4GB boundary Don't know. Is there an easy way to find out? By the way, and on a totally different subject. I wonder if thi

ATA Problems: Back in the Land of the Unhappy Camper

2008-01-29 Thread rgheck
Well, it looks as if my problems weren't solved after all. I took out a Plextor PX-W4012TA and re-installed me cherished Plextor PX-W1610A---the latter burns at 1X, which produces glorious sounding CDs. Anyway, with this change, my problems have re-appeared. See the dmesg excerpt below. The s

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread rgheck
Mark Lord wrote: rgheck wrote: Alan Cox wrote: not one problem but lots---is sufficiently widespread that a Mini HOWTO, say, would be really welcome and, I'm guessing, widely used. We don't see very many libata problems at the distro level and they for the most part bo

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-29 Thread rgheck
Gene, If you still want to try it, I did manage to get the old IDE subsystem working. The issue with pata_amd concerns modprobe.conf. You probably have an alias to it there, as Fedora seems to insert these. (I don't know if they're actually needed or not.) If you comment out that line, then