Re: Nvidia SATA - Seagate SATA Drives

[Jim Gifford <maillist@jg555.com>]

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.
> Using "irqpoll" is not a very good workaround, it really is just a 
> band-aid to get things working. Often this indicates motherboard IRQ 
> routing issues. You may want to make sure you have the latest BIOS 
> installed for the board.
I'll check for a new BIOS, but believe I have the most current on it.
> > One other issue that showed up was the drive does not recognize the 
> > drive when it's in the 3gb transfer mode, I have to jumper it to 
> > 1.5gb mode.
> >
> > Here's a link to the drive model:   
> > http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a62099f4fa74c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&locale=en-US 
> >
> > Here's a link to my motherboard: 
> > http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8N_Neo4-F&class=mb
> > It has 2GB of Memory and a Nvidia PCI-E Graphics Adapter
> >
> > I will work with any member of the lkml team to help isolate the 
> > issue, the only issue is that when it locks up everything has to be 
> > written down or photographed.

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