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mezoko

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esata drive does not get assigned a device name

Hello
My esata drive used to be assigned /dev/sdc1 when I plugged it in or turned on. It appears that after a kernel upgrade (not sure when though) that it stops working, I get output in dmesg that something get plugged in, but I don't get a /dev/sdc1 or anything. I ran fdisk -l and it also didn't show anything except my main internal drives. I doubt its a sata chip issue as I have a jmicron esata onboard, and then I also tried the nvidia sata chipset (sata ports on mobo), via a sata to esata adapter.

My current kernel version is: 2.6.23-ARCH

ata5: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xff)
ata5: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata5: hard resetting port
ata5: COMRESET failed (errno=-32)
ata5: reset failed (errno=-32), retrying in 33 secs
ata5: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
ata5: hard resetting port
ata5: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata5: reset failed, giving up
ata5: EH complete

out put from dmesg

Last edited by mezoko (2007-11-04 22:52:02)

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mezoko

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Re: esata drive does not get assigned a device name

After a pacman -Syu today everything works again

[2007-11-04 18:04] synchronizing package lists
[2007-11-04 18:04] starting full system upgrade
[2007-11-04 18:09] upgraded kernel-headers (2.6.22.1-1 -> 2.6.23.1-1)
[2007-11-04 18:09] warning: /etc/locale.gen installed as /etc/locale.gen.pacnew
[2007-11-04 18:10] reloading init: done.
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==> ATTENTION INTERNATIONAL USERS:
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==>
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==> Locales are no longer included in the glibc package.
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==> They are generated by /usr/sbin/locale-gen depending on the contents
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==> of /etc/locale.gen.
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==> glibc will try to autodetect the required locales now, if you need
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==> additional locales, please enable them in /etc/locale.gen and run
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==> /usr/sbin/locale-gen
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==>
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==> Check /etc/locale.gen.pacnew for new supported and broken locales
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==> currently broken:
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==>  #lo_LA UTF-8
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==>  #ug_CN UTF-8
[2007-11-04 18:10] ==>
[2007-11-04 18:10] Generating locales...
[2007-11-04 18:10] en_US.UTF-8... done
[2007-11-04 18:10] en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
[2007-11-04 18:10] Generation complete.
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded glibc (2.6.1-2 -> 2.7-4)
[2007-11-04 18:10] installed tzdata (2007h-1)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded binutils (2.18-3 -> 2.18-4)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded gcc-libs (4.2.2-1 -> 4.2.2-2)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded firefox (2.0.0.8-2 -> 2.0.0.9-1)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded gcc (4.2.2-2 -> 4.2.2-3)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded lib32-libcups (1.3.3-1 -> 1.3.4-1)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded lib32-libxml2 (2.6.29-1 -> 2.6.30-1)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded lib32-libxrender (0.9.3-1 -> 0.9.4-1)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded lib32-pcre (7.3-2 -> 7.4-1)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded lib32-readline (5.2-3 -> 5.2-4)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded lib32-zlib (1.2.3-2.1 -> 1.2.3-3)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded ncurses (5.6-4 -> 5.6-5)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded openssl (0.9.8f-1 -> 0.9.8g-1)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded ntp (4.2.4p4-2 -> 4.2.4p4-3)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded openssh (4.7p1-2 -> 4.7p1-3)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded ruby (1.8.6_p111-2 -> 1.8.6_p111-3)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded sudo (1.6.9p6-1 -> 1.6.9p7-1)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded syslog-ng (2.0.5-4 -> 2.0.5-5)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded usbutils (0.73-3 -> 0.73-4)
[2007-11-04 18:10] upgraded util-linux-ng (2.13-1 -> 2.13.0.1-1)

I have no idea what did the trick :-/

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mezoko

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Re: esata drive does not get assigned a device name

And now its broken again

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