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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 174

sata_sis -- lsmod shows ata loaded, no sd* in /dev...

Hello Archers,

I have had an external eSATA drive working beautifilly for some time now, but last night when I got home the "Read" LED was flashing on a regular interval.

Now no devices are created at startup. This drive is < 1 year old, so I'm praying it hasn't failed. Any debugging ideas for me? Here's some output that might help narrow it down:

4766 [0] /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-ARCH # grep SATA_SIS /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-ARCH/.config 
CONFIG_SATA_SIS=m

4767 [0] /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-ARCH # lsmod|grep -i ata
sata_sis                6020  0 
libata                 94100  1 sata_sis

4768 [0] /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-ARCH # dmesg|grep sata
sata_sis 0000:00:05.0: version 0.6
sata_sis 0000:00:05.0: Detected SiS 180/181/964 chipset in SATA mode
scsi0 : sata_sis
scsi1 : sata_sis

4769 [0] /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-ARCH # ls /dev/|grep sd 
4770 [0] /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-ARCH #

4770 [0] /usr/src/linux-2.6.20-ARCH # grep sda /etc/fstab 
/dev/sda1 /drum/bak     ext3    defaults 0      0
/dev/sda2 /drum/dl      ext3    defaults 0      0
/dev/sda3 /drum/img     ext3    defaults 0      0
/dev/sda4 /drum/music   ext3    defaults 0      0

Thanks,

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rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: sata_sis -- lsmod shows ata loaded, no sd* in /dev...

dont know if this applies to you also but
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … io#Problem
could be if you change setup  in mkinitpio.conf
if you havent already tried changing modules being loaded????
just a thought

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 174

Re: sata_sis -- lsmod shows ata loaded, no sd* in /dev...

Thanks for the response, rayjgu3. I removed "scsi" from that list; that made all the difference.

Please disregard my original response--I didn't realize I had to rebuild the img file as well as editing the .conf.

I appreciate your help very much.

Thanks again!

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Last edited by print (2007-04-19 01:47:39)

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