Only detecting one sata disk off motherboard...

humbletech99 · 07-03-2006, 07:11 AM

I have a server which I've plugged 2 seagate 160GB sata disks into. However, which ever way I do it, the OS only detects 1 of the disks. I've got the right drivers compiled directly into the 2.6.15 kernel and both disks are running off the same driver since they're both on the mobo.

The BIOS shows both disks attached and working, but linux only ever sees one of them. The machine is booting from an off-board 200GB Raid1 on a 3ware controller. I've been looking in dmesg but can't seem to find anything telling me why it won't detect more than one disk from the motherboard.

The 160GB disks are known good since I was previously using them in another machine, but I changed disks anyway to make sure and got the same results - I also changed the sata cables, but no luck again. I've even moved the cable positions to other sata ports on the mobo and back again since this made no difference.

Out of desperation I've stuck a 500GB disk in there so if I can only get one working I will at least have enough space, but I need to fix this so I can use both sata bays...

My lspci is as follows:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7230 Memory Controller Hub (rev 81)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7230 PCI Express Root Port (rev 81)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 01)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6702PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A (rev 09)
03:03.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 7xxx/8xxx-series PATA/SATA-RAID (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573V Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573V Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03)
0a:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10)
0a:05.0 VGA compatible controller: XGI - Xabre Graphics Inc Volari Z7

Revelent Dmesg section:

Code:

hda: TSSTcorpCDW/DVD SN-M242C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1536kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.001.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
scsi0 : 3ware Storage Controller
3w-xxxx: scsi0: Found a 3ware Storage Controller at 0x4000, IRQ: 20.
  Vendor: 3ware     Model: Logical Disk 0    Rev: 1.2
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
libata version 1.20 loaded.
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.05
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30E8 ctl 0x30DE bmdma 0x30B0 irq 21
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30E0 ctl 0x30DA bmdma 0x30B8 irq 21
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : ata_piix
ata2: SATA port has no device.
scsi2 : ata_piix
  Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3500641AS       Rev: 3.AA
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 398295040 512-byte hdwr sectors (203927 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 398295040 512-byte hdwr sectors (203927 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
SCSI device sdb: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
 sdb: sdb1
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized

Samoth · 07-03-2006, 08:14 AM

you know, you should look into just how much space you have on that one disk you detected. As i recall, 3ware combines both harddrives into one harddrive seen by the OS, so it probably is working, but it is so transparent you cant tell. Try setting them up as RAID 0 and see if it doubles you space.....if it does, then it works.

humbletech99 · 07-03-2006, 08:59 AM

No, you misunderstand, the 3ware is an off-board controller that has a raid1 for the system disk which shows up as sda. The 2 disks I'm trying to add are to the motherboard sata connectors, of which only one of the disks shows up....