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04-11-2009, 08:44 AM
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Registered: Apr 2009
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SSD not recognized
Hello everybody
For hours I am failing with the following:
I just bought a Asus P5N7A-VM board and a HAMA SATA 8GB SSD drive.
Ubuntu, slax nor Knoppix are all throwing an error:
Code:
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ dmesg |grep ata
[ 3.039347] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf9f76000 port 0xf9f76100 irq 508
[ 3.039350] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf9f76000 port 0xf9f76180 irq 508
[ 3.039353] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf9f76000 port 0xf9f76200 irq 508
[ 3.039355] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf9f76000 port 0xf9f76280 irq 508
[ 3.039358] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf9f76000 port 0xf9f76300 irq 508
[ 3.039360] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf9f76000 port 0xf9f76380 irq 508
[ 3.783025] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 3.783050] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)
[ 9.475849] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 9.475868] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)
[ 15.168675] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 15.168693] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)
[ 20.861498] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 20.861509] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x1 t4
[ 20.861512] ata1: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
[ 21.194802] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 21.528106] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 21.861409] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 22.194712] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 22.528017] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
lspci and uname give me:
Code:
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 0a80 (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0a88 (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 0aac (rev b2)
00:03.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0aa4 (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus: nVidia Corporation Device 0aa2 (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0a89 (rev b1)
00:03.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0a98 (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation Device 0aa3 (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0aa5 (rev b1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0aa6 (rev b1)
00:06.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0aa7 (rev b1)
00:06.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0aa9 (rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0ac0 (rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 0aab (rev b1)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
00:0b.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Device 0ab4 (rev b1)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 0ac4 (rev b1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 0aa0 (rev b1)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 0ac6 (rev b1)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 0ac7 (rev b1)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 086c (rev b1)
05:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMB368 IDE controller
Code:
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ uname -a
Linux Microknoppix 2.6.28.4 #8 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 9 14:33:28 CET 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
I also tried to set the drive to SATA,RAID and AHCI in the bios. Also upgrading the bios to the newest version. In sheer desperation I treid a Windows XP cd and everything is okay there 
Anyone got an idea what is going wrong here?
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04-11-2009, 09:14 AM
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Is there a jumper on the drive to limit transfer rate to 1.5 Gbps ? You could try enabling that (put jumper back in).
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04-11-2009, 09:31 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H
Is there a jumper on the drive to limit transfer rate to 1.5 Gbps ? You could try enabling that (put jumper back in).
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no, it doesnt have such a jumper. |
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04-11-2009, 10:00 AM
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Do you have any IDE drives attached ? If you do not, and don't need the JMicron IDE controller, then disable it in the BIOS, and put the nvidia SATA controller in AHCI mode. Make sure you have the ahci driver built-in to the kernel.
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04-12-2009, 03:25 PM
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LQ Newbie
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No I haven't. I just deactivated it. I also treid to boot into a Ubuntu live cd with these parameters:
irqpoll, pci=routeirq, pci=nomsi, pci=noacpi, pci=bios, pci=biosirq, all_generic_ide and finally "noapic irqpoll pci=routeirq". Every time with the same errors.
full dmesg here: http://pastebin.ca/1388852
Code:
tone@tones:~$ cat dmesg.txt |grep ata1
[ 1.809350] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xf9f76000 port 0xf9f76100 irq 2300
[ 2.516034] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 2.516067] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)
[ 8.224025] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 8.224047] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)
[ 8.224051] ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
[ 13.932025] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[ 13.932046] ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)
[ 19.640025] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[ 19.640038] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x1 t4
[ 19.640101] ata1: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
In a german forum a kind person suggested IRQ problems with ASUS boards are a common problem. Is this really a known issue?
Any help appreciated |
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04-13-2009, 04:14 AM
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I too was thinking it's an IRQ issue. Usually it's with the other IDE controller (which you disabled), but it could be with something else too.
Can you post the output of 'cat /proc/interrupts' and 'lsmod'.
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04-13-2009, 05:24 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2009
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Thank you very much for your ideas, H_TeXMeX_H.
Here are the corresponding outputs of my last attempt booting with "noapic irqpoll pci=routeirq"
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 14494 XT-PIC-XT timer
1: 2 XT-PIC-XT i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade
5: 19159 XT-PIC-XT ehci_hcd:usb4
7: 5840 XT-PIC-XT ohci_hcd:usb1
8: 1 XT-PIC-XT rtc0
9: 34 XT-PIC-XT acpi, ohci_hcd:usb3
11: 42112 XT-PIC-XT ehci_hcd:usb2, eth0
12: 4 XT-PIC-XT i8042
15: 4427 XT-PIC-XT HDA Intel
2301: 3 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 35916 Local timer interrupts
RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 0 Function call interrupts
TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 2
MIS: 0
and
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 16776 1
ppdev 15492 0
lp 17156 0
parport 42220 2 ppdev,lp
bridge 56340 0
stp 10500 1 bridge
bnep 20224 2
video 25360 0
output 11008 1 video
input_polldev 11912 0
snd_hda_intel 435124 3
snd_pcm_oss 46336 0
snd_mixer_oss 22656 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 82820 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
psmouse 62228 0
snd_timer 29704 1 snd_pcm
shpchp 40212 0
serio_raw 13316 0
pcspkr 10496 0
snd 62628 11 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 15200 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 16904 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
aufs 167204 1
exportfs 12544 1 aufs
squashfs 46216 1
nls_cp437 13696 1
isofs 39716 1
usb_storage 81984 1
usbhid 42336 0
forcedeth 61712 0
ehci_hcd 44556 0
ohci_hcd 32016 0
fbcon 46112 0
tileblit 10752 1 fbcon
font 16384 1 fbcon
bitblit 13824 1 fbcon
softcursor 9984 1 bitblit
Thanks for taking the time to help me out. |
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04-13-2009, 08:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by toneman77
Here are the corresponding outputs of my last attempt booting with "noapic irqpoll pci=routeirq"
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 14494 XT-PIC-XT timer
1: 2 XT-PIC-XT i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade
5: 19159 XT-PIC-XT ehci_hcd:usb4
7: 5840 XT-PIC-XT ohci_hcd:usb1
8: 1 XT-PIC-XT rtc0
9: 34 XT-PIC-XT acpi, ohci_hcd:usb3
11: 42112 XT-PIC-XT ehci_hcd:usb2, eth0
12: 4 XT-PIC-XT i8042
15: 4427 XT-PIC-XT HDA Intel
2301: 3 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 35916 Local timer interrupts
RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 0 Function call interrupts
TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 2
MIS: 0
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This line is puzzling:
2301: 3 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
There's also errors:
ERR: 2
How exactly is this drive connected and to where. To the mobo ? To a SATA port ? No adapters of any kind ?
You can also try the 'pci=nomsi' kernel parameter.
I would also try without the 'noapic' option. |
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04-13-2009, 11:22 AM
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LQ Newbie
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The disk is plugged into the SATA slot on the board, no adapters or anything.
From the boot with the pci=nomsi option and omitted noapic:
dmesg: http://pastebin.ca/1390693
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 13786 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042
7: 1 IO-APIC-edge
8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 4 IO-APIC-edge i8042
20: 22186 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb4
21: 36 IO-APIC-fasteoi ahci, ohci_hcd:usb3
22: 33270 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0
23: 2458 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2, HDA Intel
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 26687 Local timer interrupts
RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 0 Function call interrupts
TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 1
MIS: 0
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04-13-2009, 12:29 PM
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That looks better, so it doesn't work with that ?
I'm not sure what else to try. Just keep messing with BIOS options for the SATA controller and kernel boot options, that's all I can think of.
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04-13-2009, 12:35 PM
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Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ fdisk -l
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
7 0 690072 loop0
So I think the disk doesn't get recognized...
Funny/sad thing is that Windows installed on that disk without a hitch
Any ideas welcome
Toni |
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04-13-2009, 01:40 PM
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omg
I just inserted a gparted/clonezilla livecd. And the disk got recognized!!
How can I find out what gparted did what made this all kinda "work" ?
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04-13-2009, 02:42 PM
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After the gparted "success" I tried a bit more with ubuntu live cds:
Jaunty Live: disk with error
Quote:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.28-9-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 11 15:43:58 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
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dmesg: http://pastebin.ca/1390892
Intrepid Live: disk with error
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
dmesg: http://pastebin.ca/1390900
Gutsy: success !!!
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
(sda is the disk, sdb is the usb stick i needed to copy the files over)
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 7962192 sda
8 1 32098 sda1
8 2 7928077 sda2
7 0 648272 loop0
8 16 2015232 sdb
8 17 2015216 sdb1
dmesg: http://pastebin.ca/1390924
How can I find out, what the other live cds make different?
Last edited by toneman77; 04-13-2009 at 02:45 PM.
Reason: Wring distro name
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04-14-2009, 06:07 AM
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Hmm, it could be either an Ubuntu-specific bug or a kernel bug. Either way newer versions of either would help.
Did you try knoppix ? other live CDs you might have, make note of kernel versions if you can. Some bugs start at a particular version and end at a particular version of the kernel (they are fixed).
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04-14-2009, 06:11 AM
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I tried gparted and knoppix, but didnt write down kernel versions. Sadly I'm off at work now. Will return to that machine friday night
Thanks a lot for your help.
Will report asap. |
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