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reyn

Member

Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 9

SATA hard disk not detected

Hi,

I have this strange problem - Arch cannot detect my SATA hard disk when I boot into the new environment, while it does detect it during the process and when I boot from installation cd. I checked the loaded modules with hwdetect and they seem the same ones are listed at both times.

I have one IDE hard drive and one SATA drive. The motherboard is an intel-based DFI Blood Iron motherboard

Here is a message from dmesg:

ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xaf00 ctl 0xae00 bmdma 0xab00 irq 16
ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xad00 ctl 0xac00 bmdma 0xab08 irq 16
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
ata1.00: HPA detected: current 234439535, native 234441648
ata1.00: ATA-6: WDC WD1200JB-00EVA0, 15.05R15, max UDMA/100
ata1.00: 234439535 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 
ata1.01: ATAPI: PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-111, 1.23, max UDMA/66
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata1.01: configured for UDMA/66
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD1200JB-00E 15.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi 0:0:1:0: CD-ROM            PIONEER  DVD-RW  DVR-111  1.23 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.12
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ]
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: setting latency timer to 64
scsi2 : ata_piix
scsi3 : ata_piix
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf900 irq 14
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf908 irq 15
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ]
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64
scsi4 : ata_piix
scsi5 : ata_piix
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf600 ctl 0xf500 bmdma 0xf200 irq 19
ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf400 ctl 0xf300 bmdma 0xf208 irq 19
ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)

hwdetect --show-modules gives:

AGP    : agpgart intel-agp 
ACPI   : button dock fan processor thermal 
PATA   : pata_acpi pata_jmicron ata_generic 
SCSI   : scsi_mod sd_mod sr_mod 
SATA   : ata_piix 
USB    : usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd 
NET    : ppp_generic sky2 slhc 
INPUT  : evdev ff-memless pcspkr hid usbhid usbhid 
SOUND  : snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-pcsp snd-hda-intel soundcore 
VIDEO  : btcx-risc compat_ioctl32 cx88-alsa cx8800 cx8802 cx88xx tveeprom v4l1-compat v4l2-common videobuf-core videobuf-dma-sg videodev nvidia 
OTHER  : cdrom i2c-algo-bit i2c-i801 i2c-core ir-common pci_hotplug shpchp rtc-cmos rtc-core rtc-lib iTCO_vendor_support iTCO_wdt

Please help

R

pointone

Wiki Admin

From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: SATA hard disk not detected

So I assume your SATA drive is not "/"?

Are you mounting the drive in fstab? The dmesg output you've posted doesn't indicate a problem, as far as I can tell.

Please post the output "fdisk -l" (that's a lower-case L).

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reyn

Member

Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 9

Re: SATA hard disk not detected

Hi

No - as I mentioned I have two drives - one is /dev/sda/ which is an 120GB IDE the second is a 320GB SATA hard drive that i use to store all sorts of crap on as well as a Windows partition.
I also have IDE DVD burner by Pioneer. the dmesg shows both IDE hard drives, but not the SATA.

This is not an issue of mounting as even the fdisk/cfdisk dont see the hard drive - I would rather bet on some module that does not start properly.

Anyway here is the output from fdisk -l:

bash-3.2# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120033041920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x138a138a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        4863    39062016   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            4864        4985      979965   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            4986       14593    77176260   83  Linux

R