Sata drive not deteced

i have winxp installed on my ide drive and i add a sata drive and partitioned it. winxp detected just fine but i just did a format of my ide drive. after i installed winxp and the via drivers i still dont see my sata drive in My Computer. plz help.

yup... sometimes better goto the original chipset's websites for the drivers, sometimes I also found that MSI provided drivers maybe way too obsolete or just wrong drivers posted...

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SATA DRIVES NOT SHOWING IN SYSTEM PROFILER

Hi.
Thanks for reading this.
I found out that my SATA drives do not appear in my System Profiler.
I am running OS 10.4.7 on a PowerMAC G4 Dual Gig 2002 Quicksilver with
3 hard drives:
- TWO 250 GB SATA Drives (Both partitioned into 3 sections: 132 GB which is my MAIN drive, 90 GB which is used to back up music, and 53 GB which is used to hold finished work. The other drive is partitioned into 3 sections: 60 GB which is a back up of my MAIN drive, 126 GB which I record music to, and 58 GB which I use for Photoshop/Video finished work.) The SATA drives are connected via PCI card (described below)
- ONE 80 GB ATA Drive (Partitioned into 2 sections: 20 GB which has back up OS and 60 GB which holds my iTunes library.)
Here is what System Profile shows me:
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G4
Machine Model: PowerMac3,5
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.1)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 1 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.3.3f2
Serial Number: XB2081EAM8H
Sales Order Number: M8667LL/A
ATA:
ST380021A:
Capacity: 74.53 GB
Model: ST380021A
Revision: 5.05
Serial Number: 3HV0XMWA
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Protocol: ATA
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal
OS9 Drivers: Yes
S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported
Volumes:
ATA Drive:
Capacity: 15 GB
Available: 5.51 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s11
Mount Point: /Volumes/ATA Drive
iTunes:
Capacity: 59.4 GB
Available: 682.29 MB
Writable: Yes
File System: HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s12
Mount Point: /Volumes/iTunes
PCI Cards:
SeriTek/1V2E2 v.5.1.1,03/14/05, 23:42:20:
Name: Seri-Tek1V2E2
Type: ata
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-3
Vendor ID: 0x8086
Device ID: 0x3200
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x8086
Subsystem ID: 0x3200
ROM Revision: 5.1.1.1V2E2
Revision ID: 0x0000
Is this normal?
Is there a way to fix it?
I have noticed some strangeness while using Safari lately, could there be a connection?
PLEASE respond as if you are explaining this all to a COMPLETE idiot.
(Meaning technical jargon with abbreviated terms can cause confusion, just please give a descriptive response?)
Thanks!
And when I click on Serial-ATA I get:
No information found.
PowerMAC G4(2002 Quicksilver) Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2 Seagate SATA 250GB drives, 80 GB Seagate ATA drive, Digital Performer 4.6

Hi Tommy,
you could try reseting your PRAM to see if that makes any difference, as this holds your systems parameters. You shouldn't hurt your Mac by resetting them.
To reset PRAM hold down AppleAlt+PR on startup until it chimes 3 to 5 times then release.
Also...
Let the Mac boot after a PRAM reset then restart to reset your Open Firmware which may also help. At Startup hold AppleAlt+OF then type at the light grey screen (all without speech marks) "reset-nvram" then press return key. Then type "rest-all" then press return key again. Then type "mac-boot" press return to exit.
These command may help you they may not, but they shouldn't hinder you in any way. But if you are in any doubt about these commands by all means research them further on the Apple website or just ask for a second opinion.
Regards.
Rory

MS-7008 SATA drives not visible

Hi,
My MS-7008 ATX Mainboard has:
Supports Intel® P4 Northwood/Prescott (Socket 478) processor.
VIA® PT880 chipset
VIA® VT8237 chipset
- High Bandwidth V-link Client controller
- Integrated Faster Ethernet LPC
- Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio
- Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller
- ACPI
- Supports Serial ATA
- Supports USB2.0
Have been funning this motherboard for many years without problems. Until now, when I decided to use SATA drives in addition. Bought Samsung 1 TB (HD103UJ model) drive, connected to MB and fired up my W2K3 system.
To my large dissapointment drives did not show up in the list of available disks. I am looking under Computer Management - Disk Management. Device Manager shows some error under SCSI and RAID Controllers - VIA RAID Conntroller 3149 ... It has this yellow sign with "!" in it. Understand that driver for SATA migh be missing. Since that point I have been to tones of pages on web reading and searching, but after two days still no luck... Tried MSI page, VIA (producer of southbridge chipset) page, tried out many drivers I could find there, but still same message. On the other hand, those are not listed in computer start up post messages either. I checked all settings in BIOS, found only one regarding SATA and there it says enabled.
The only thing I did not check out yet is to play with HDD jumpers. Somewhere I read that by limiting speed of HDD one can make them appear. But I do not have jumper avalable and HDD manual is very unclear, not sure if I can do that even if I had jumper. Have only 4 pins ( two sets times two pins) so it is only 4 possible combinations, will try as soon as I get some pins.
Anybody else have any other idea??? Really painfull to search for something that should just work in "plug & play" mode

Unfortunatelly Disk Management does not show that disk. I am quite sure this has to do with finding right drivers. Furthermore, I hope that these drivers can be installed now, after system has been installed. I believe SATA drivers need to be installed during system installation only if SATA drive is the one where you install the system. In my case, this drive will only be used as data drive, so hopefully I can find the right driver and install it now. Pleaes note, that BIOS identifies SATA 1 driver (I temporarely connected another SATA drive that I had). The only problem is, I can not find the driver.... One possible reason could be that my system "windows Server 2003 X86 is not supported"... That would be dissapointing :( I have looked through MSI page as well as VIA support and tried many possible drives (I go into device manager and select SATA driver that is currently with yellow warning sign, right click it and do update, then select the new downloaded driver, but system does not accept it).
I also tried to uninstall existing drive completely, and then do "search for hardware changes". This finds new device and places it not under unidentified devices without driver. It places into SCSI and RAID controllers group and call device something that ends 3149 ... VIA chip used on my board is 8237, so again, kind of weired number that Windows automatically assigns to new device. But again, it does not allow me to change the driver to any of the downloaded ones, saying that it is not newer driver than the one currently installed....

External SATA drive not mounting

I have now been on the phone 3x witht eh clowns at OWC, who btw, do not know their product because they gave me the wrong advice twice. I'm now on hold for a third time. I thought you guys might be faster.
I bought a OWC mercury elite dual drive enclosure. eSATA connectors. I moved an internal SATA drive into it to be external.
I bought a Seri-Tek1SE2 card. My pci-x slots are supposed to work with this PCI card. It is recognized in the apple profiler.
The problem, the disk doesn't mount on the computer. The machine is on. Seems to work, but can't find it in profiler or disk utilities.
Please help me troubleshoot, someone, PLEASE!!!!!
thanks!

ZAP PRAM or better yet, boot into Open Firmware and
reset-nvram.
Done. Even reset the PMU
Ordered a new SeriTek/1VE4 card that should arrive on Tuesday.
You don't say what drives you are using. Some or not
all work well.
Western Digital. Only one drive.

Urgent - No 64bit Promise SATA driver (not RAID)

I'd already installed XP64 on an old PATA drive without problems, so today I decided to use the new VIA SATA drive to dual-boot it off my SATA drive, along with my main XP32 installation. Unfortunately, although it found the VIA driver at F6 and got to the GUI install it locked solid at Devices. Worse than that it's totally screwed all the boot files so I now can't get to anything on either the SATA or PATA drives, and blue screen on any attempt to boot either drive. That's 4 OS installs gone.
I moved the SATA over to the Promise controller thinking I'd seen 64bit Promise drivers for weeks, but it seems these are only RAID drivers and are called "Promise FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller". Needless to say they don't find a single SATA drive. What I need would be the driver called "Promise SATA378 (tm) Controller" but I can't find it. Have Promise really released a RAID driver but no single SATA driver for the same controller???
If I don't find it I guess I'm looking at 4 days spent formatting and reinstalling.

Hi Jocko
OK, I'll try explain (and remember!)
First I installed XP32 on the lone SATA drive. No problem as it was the only drive.
Then I added an old PATA drive, which BIOS and Windows Setup always sees as Disk 0 and the SATA as Disk 1.
I then installed XP32 onto the PATA drive. No problem, I think it was because Windows saw it as Disk 0 as it put the MBR in the right place.
I then put Server64 and XP64 on the PATA drive to test them (leaving by day-to-day install safe on the SATA drive. Again, no problems, it updated the MBR correctly to let me multiboot between the 3 OSes on the PATA drive.
I then tried to add an install of XP64 to the SATA drive, but because I left the PATA drive connected, Windows setup updated the MBR of the PATA drive instead. On subsequent reboot it failed because it was pointing to the wrong drive (I think). So I had half an install on the SATA drive, and a boot.ini on the PATA which pointed to a non-existent half installation. Even with BIOS listing the SATA drive as the boot device, each time the PC restarted it tried to carry on the installation and of course failed.
That's when I had to refer to my book on Recovery Console...
So it seems that if multiple drives are installed, it will update the MBR on the lowest ID drive, which is not necessarily the drive the installation is actually going on to! I think!

Hotswap sata drives not recognized / partition table not detected

Hello Everybody,
I'm having some trouble, recently I bought to hot swap drive bays and moved two of my hardrives into them, but I can't seem to recognize the drives unless I boot with them in the "on" position, if I turn them on later, there's no indication that they are recognized at all by the system (by this I mean that there doesn't seem to be any new sd* or hd* devices appearing in /dev)
If I reboot with the drives configure in the "on" position, then arch recognizes them, but it can't read the partition table on one of the drives; it just shows up as, e.g /dev/sda and I don't see /dev/sda1; the drive has a single partition formatted with xfs (yes I've got xfsprogs installed), and I can recognize it if I boot into Parted Magic 3.5. I wonder if it's becuase I have BSD partition table? Anway, this isn't a huge issue, becuase I'm just going to transfer the data onto an external usb drive, reformat and transfer the data back.
I really do want to figure out a solution to the hotswapping problem though, because I don't want to have reboot if I want to hotswap the drives; this completely defeats the purpose of having hot-swappable drives.
Thanks for any help you can give,
-Pseudonomous
Edit 1: Potentially useful data:
I've got an ATI SB700/SB800 sata controller according to lspci
Edit 2:
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to contact AMD for tech-support, they provide no information on these Sata controllers, I have, however, contacted my motherboard's manufacturer. If anybody knows how to get in touch with AMD/ATI support, that would also probably be helpful.
Last edited by pseudonomous (2009-09-18 00:56:28)

I think I've got it working now; thanks for everyone's help.
There was in fact some BIOS settings that I needed to change hidden under "southbridge configuration". I needed to enable AHCI and disable "SATA / IDE combined controller" or something like that.
I'm also having some trouble with my fstab setup since the hotswap sata drives are in a raid1 array, and the system doesn't like it when I boot without it present; I'll see if I can figure out a way around that; if not it probably belongs in another thread, anyway,.
Again, thanks for your help!

SATA drives not being detected - K8N Neo4 Platinum

I have the same problem, different PSU!
msi k8n neo4 platinum pcb 1.0
3000 64 939
corsair 1gb dual channel ddr400
nvidia 8800gts
antec truepower 550 (19a @ 12v)
used to run 2 ide maxtor 120 and 80
added in a sata dvd writer, worked for 6 months
added in a sata 1TB seagate 7200, sata fails a majority of the time
same symptons now persist as in original post.
:< either bios detects both sata drives, neither, or it crashes. this happens respectively rarely, uncommon, and most common
what ive tried:
updated all mainboard, bios, video drivers to the most up to date (i had to in order for bios to detect the full size of the 1TB)
no ide, same problems
only 1 sata, with and without ide, same problems
the sata only works after a long period of time (or randomly), that i dont use it
(ive had both sata unplugged for 12 hours, booted up this morning with them and it detected, i selected safe mode boot, after making it through a majority of the load, it crashed)
testing a new psu in a day or so, much more powerful. ill give you all my results.

The cables aren't overly bent?
"...worked for 6 months"
"...fails a majority of the time"
Not very relevant, but since i found the FAQs, and there are no less than four FAQs for hard disks http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=prodfaq&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=165#menu :
"Silicon Image Si3114R Raid bios doesn't have JBOD setting in it, why?
In the new Silicon Image BIOS, JBOD already been renamed as "Concatenation".
If you want to use single SATA HDD or when tou want use each SATA HDD as IDE mode, you can choose "Concatenation" function in Silicon RAID BIOS."
"I am using a SATA hard drive with NCQ technology on this motherboard and I am experiencing problems. How do I fix it?
The issue depends on the Southbridge chipset. Nvidia is currently working on an updated nForce driver to address the issues with certain hard drives.
You could contact Nvidia support to ask for the new driver if there is one. If there is not any new driver to solve the issue, please disable NCQ on your system." /My fattening. /

P35 Neo 2 Fr - SATA drives not supported ?!?

I have just screwed together my new PC.
Motherboard : MSI P35 Neo 2 FR
CPU : Intel E6850
Mem: 2GB DDR2 800
Drives (2x): Seagate 250GB SATA
Windows: Vista Home Premium OEM (dutch)
It is a totaly clean install.
Problem is: When installing VISA it stops at the drive selection. It tells me (translate from Dutch): "the hardware of this computer possibly does not support the booting of this harddrive. Check that the drive controller is switched on in the BIOS"
When i'm in the bios (1.4) all seems well.
What to do?
EDIT: stangely, Seagate says on its site that : Seagate hard drives do not require any special drivers for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The generic hard drive driver should support your hard drive. We recommend using the latest Windows Service Pack (SP) updates as these often refresh the Windows drivers
This makes is hard to do a (what i have been reading)"F6 Disc & install driver" solution. Or are there non-brand specific sata drivers.
Help!

It was not my intention of installing the drives in Raid. I started out setting as AHCI.
Later on i tried setting as raid as MSI does have a driver for SATA Raid (on their site and on the supplied driver disc), unfortunately no success.
I think i must admit defeat. Tomorrow morning i will purchase a new IDE drive and install VISTA on this. I have the feeling it should then be easy to access the SATA drives.
Off topic (not really) : i downloaded the Seagate DiscWizard on my existing pc. This promises to solve all these kind of problems. But it refused to start because it needed at least one Seagate product installed on my pc. Hahahaha, of course my old pc is fitted with WD drives. Not very useful from Seagate.
Off topic 2: roll over bios, we need EFI

SATA Drive not found and other stuff.

Allright.
I have had all kinds of problems setting up this new system that includes the Neo2 plat, amd 64 3500+ WD Raptor and a seagate 80gb sata.
After reading the quide I found in here I finally got to see my primary sata and finally installed Windows on it. Now my issue is, it doesnt see my second sata drive. I dont know why. Im going to try to update the bios and see if this helps but im going nuts over here. I have them connected on sata 3/4 with 3 being my primary. If anyone can help i would appreciate it. If you need any additional info let me know and ill post it. Thx.

Allright I finally got to see the other drive(changed the power connections around a little bit and now its there) however when i got into standard cmos it doesnt show me either drive there. At least I got the second one to come up so Im good to go right now but kinda strange that the drives dont appear in bios dont ya think?

SATA Drive Not Recognised

???-)I cannot get my new system to recognise my Maxtor 160GB SATA HDD. The Serial ATA Manual that came with the MB says to press CTRL-F when the "No Array Defined" screen appears. This screen does not appear. There appear to be no settings in the bios for SATA either? Have also tried Maxblast but this cannot find HDD either. Am very stuck!Cannot explore other options as have no hard drive!
My System: -
MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR
Maxtor 160GB SATA HDD (Promise 9)
MSI FX5600U-VTD128 Graphics Card
A-Open CD/W

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Originally posted by DnF
Buuuahaaa!
I have the same problem, I tried near everything last night and nothing...
I have the same hw config, but MSI GF5700 and NEC DVD
My problem is totally the same: No raid config screen on first time I connected SATA. No harddisk in win XP instalation (drivers for sata-controller was selected via F6 from floppy)
On disk back is some pins for switch, does it need any? I looked for it at matrox, but nothing found.
I have downloaded last bios version just now (7.6), and going to try it.
I'm still looking for help, if you have some ideas, (or solutions) please post it here. I will do the same when find something
Sorry for my english ... I'm beginner....
check to see if you have ONBOARD RAID enabled in your BIOS.

How to setup x2 sata W/D Raptor drives not using raid

Hi all,
I am new to this forum so please be kind.
I have just got myself this NE02 board along with 2 W/D Raptor SATA Hard Drives.
I have seem many instructions in these groups about how to configure sata drives using a raid configuration.
What I am looking to do is basically install 2 Raptor SATA drives not using raid,
And also have 2 ide cdrom drives.
Can someone please come back with a nice simple if that can be done! configuration on how i can best achive this.
Many thanks for all your help.
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In bios under Integrated Peripherals, On Chip ATA Operating Mode set
Native Mode
ATA Configuration - SATA only
SATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA channel selection - both
Configure SATA as Raid - no
Read the raid thread at the top anyway, as you may want to install the drivers during the XP install in case you change your mind later.
Also, during your Windows installation, just connect a single SATA drive untill you are up and running.
Read P4 Neo Unofficial Guide for more information.

Hard-Drive not Detected load sata drivers

Hi everyone I have a G6-1189sa notebook, I had a faulty harddrive so replaced it with the exact same drive 750GB WD, Thing is I could not save anything from the original drive ? so no recovery partitions are anything I even lost all my family photos and software.
Ok so I done a straight swap over and went ahead installing my fresh Windows 7 x64 disk, then I got an error message saying no device detected please install driver etc etc.
I know I need to install the sata driver for the harddrive to be detected, so I extracted the HP sata control driver to a USB pen the tried to load the driver, with the load driver option on the install disk.
Error message saying driver is not signed !!!! So after some reading on google I learned I had to disable the naitive sata option in the bios settings for the harddrive to be detected.
Thing is there is not a option for this in my bios ? unless Im missing something like an advanced bios setting.
I even went to the Intel site and tried some of there drivers but I get the same error message driver not signed.
So my question is ? how can I disable the native sata option if Its possible , If not how can I load the HP sata driver if its not signed.
Its very anyoing someone even said I have to slip the drivers in and make a new home made W7 disk myself to get my pc working again what the hell, where would I start.
Maybe I should put the laptop in the post and send it back, Ive never had so much trouble before making simple memory and harddrive exchanges.
Any advice please people Im at my wits end, my laptop is only a few month old and its now a door stopper lol

Hi,
Boot into the bios and be sure that the hard drive is detected.
Sata drivers are included in Windows 7.
Return the bios to its default settings and use the HP Recovery Disks. If you don't have the Recovery Disks then order them from HP. Order HP recovery Disks.
HP DV9700, t9300, Nvidia 8600, 4GB, Crucial C300 128GB SSD
HP Photosmart Premium C309G, HP Photosmart 6520
HP Touchpad, HP Chromebook 11
Custom i7-4770k,Z-87, 8GB, Vertex 3 SSD, Samsung EVO SSD, Corsair HX650,GTX 760
Custom i7-4790k,Z-97, 16GB, Vertex 3 SSD, Plextor M.2 SSD, Samsung EVO SSD, Corsair HX650, GTX 660TI
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[SOLVED] Laptop SATA drive on desktop computer not working

Hey guys,
My acer laptop crashed few days ago and I'm trying to recover the data off its SATA harddisk on my gf's desktop computer. I don't know why, but I get a lot of errors at startup.
dmesg:
Adding 2024180k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2024180k
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:20:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 16384 in
res 51/04:20:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:20:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 16384 in
res 51/04:20:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:20:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 16384 in
res 51/04:20:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:20:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 16384 in
res 51/04:20:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:20:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 16384 in
res 51/04:20:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:20:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 16384 in
res 51/04:20:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
__ratelimit: 6 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 2
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
res 51/04:08:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
res 51/04:08:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
res 51/04:08:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
res 51/04:08:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
res 51/04:08:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata5.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in
res 51/04:08:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
ata5: EH complete
I get the following output with hdparm:
$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD2500BEVS-22UST0
Serial Number: WD-WXE507A05038
Firmware Revision: 01.01A01
Standards:
Supported: 8 7 6 5
Likely used: 8
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 16383 16383
heads 16 16
sectors/track 63 63
CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064
LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455
LBA48 user addressable sectors: 488397168
Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes
device size with M = 1024*1024: 238475 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 250059 MBytes (250 GB)
cache/buffer size = 8192 KBytes
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Queue depth: 32
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 1
Advanced power management level: 128
Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
Enabled Supported:
SMART feature set
* Security Mode feature set
* Power Management feature set
* Write cache
* Look-ahead
* Host Protected Area feature set
* WRITE_BUFFER command
* READ_BUFFER command
* NOP cmd
* DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
* Advanced Power Management feature set
SET_MAX security extension
Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
* 48-bit Address feature set
* Device Configuration Overlay feature set
* Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
* FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
* SMART error logging
* SMART self-test
* General Purpose Logging feature set
* WRITE_{DMA|MULTIPLE}_FUA_EXT
* 64-bit World wide name
* IDLE_IMMEDIATE with UNLOAD
* Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
* Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
* Native Command Queueing (NCQ)
* Host-initiated interface power management
* Phy event counters
DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization
Device-initiated interface power management
* Software settings preservation
* SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
* SCT Long Sector Access (AC1)
* SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
* SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
* SCT Features Control (AC4)
* SCT Data Tables (AC5)
unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)
unknown 206[13] (vendor specific)
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
enabled
locked
not frozen
not expired: security count
not supported: enhanced erase
Security level high
92min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 50014ee2559ab684
NAA : 5
IEEE OUI : 0014ee
Unique ID : 2559ab684
Checksum: correct
Note that the drive is password protected. If I use 'hdparm --security-disable' with my known password, it fails with the following error:
$ sudo hdparm --security-disable password /dev/sdb
security_password="password"
/dev/sdb:
Issuing SECURITY_DISABLE command, password="password", user=master
SECURITY_UNLOCK: Input/output error
If I try this for few times, the security count expires.
I see three problems that it could have:
- my hdparm/system/whatever does not fully support the drive; maybe the password cannot be accepted?
- maybe the password used by the laptop bios was filled with other characters after my typing: spaces?
- not the password is the problem, but getting information from the drive: not supported by this system?
I assume dmesg is the key, but I can't interpret it. I hope someone could tell me what should I verify/do further, I have no idea what to test anymore.
Last edited by akephalos (2009-08-30 11:27:42)

djszapi wrote:Is it a crypted system ? Can't you boot into it from livecd neither ? What did you do immediately before when this error started to occur ?
No, it is not encrypted. Just as an information, it contains 4 partitions: sdb1=NTFS, sdb2=ext4, sdb3=swap, sdb4=ext4.
This error did not occur when I was using it on my laptop, but I took the HDD out and mounted it in my girlfriend's computer, she has another Arch installed there, so I don't meed to boot from this disk, just to be able to read it. The password is a disk password - hardware probably, not for encrypted partitions. I could not disable the password because the original laptop doesn't start anymore, and the BIOS settings on this desktop computer does not support HDD password, but only System password.
So, if the HDD had no passwod set, I could tell you if the reading problem comes from some incompatibility issues, but as for now, I can't tell where it comes from, because I need to deactivate its security with hdparm --security-disable first. But this actually looks to not work, or something.
I'm thinking that the mianboard doesn't support this HDD directly connected, the things I'll do next week are:
- buying an external HDD 2.5 rack
- plug it in the USB
- try again hdparm and anything required to make it read.
If this fails, too, probably the only remaining solution is to find someone with an Acer laptop to put this HDD inside and backup my data, or at least deactivate the pass from the bios setings.
Btw, I think this is something worth mentioning to warn the users in general: this Acer 5520G was of very poor quality, things began to crack right after the one year guarantee expired, beginning with the DVD-writer.

KT4AV will not boot with SATA card installed and no SATA drive

I put a Promise brand SATA II card in a KT4AV motherboard. There is an IDE drive and a DVD drive hooked up to the IDE1 port on the motherboard. That IDE drive has Windows XP Pro SP2 loaded on it.
If I have a SATA drive plugged into the card, the machine works fine. If I remove the STAT drive and leave the card in, I cannot boot to Windows. If I remove the card, it works fine. The only time there is a problem is when the SATA card is plugged in and there is no drive on the SATA card.
As one possible solution, I tried to boot to a Windows CD to reload Windows. It will not even allow me to reload from the CD, it says there is a file missing from the CD. If the SATA drive is hooked up, it will work fine on the CD. Also, I tried multiple CDs and they all give the same message. Because it makes a difference whether the SATA drive is connected or not, I do not believe the CD is the problem.
I have tried looking on Promise's web site for a FAQ or an updated BIOS or for other information about this problem and I found nothing. I have e-mailed them and they did not reply yet.
There is no reason to think this is the fault of the motherboard, but I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas about this problem. Because of the symptoms, I believe it also cannot be the CPU, memory, PSU, video card, etc. Sorry if that makes this post off topic.

Quote from: HenryW on 16-March-07, 02:56:44
Have you tried to disable card in Device Manager when you don't use it? What is the model number of the card you are using?
It is a SATA 300 TX2, which means that it has two SATA ports and one IDE port. I have never used the IDE port, only one SATA.
I have never tried to disable it, but I could try, just to see what it did. It sure would be a lot more work to disable and enable it so that isn't a good long term solution. Among other things, it would mean that I would have to boot up in order to remove the SATA drive. Since it won't boot with the drive removed, it will require more planning.
Will post the results once I have tried. Still no reply from Promise :-(

Help How to Boot SATA drive? Serial ATA (NOT)- Raid

hi, i have the
Msi K8N Neo Platinum and i despertly tried to boot from the Serial ATA drive.
i have 2 hd in the IDE primary channels
and 2 Cdrw and Cd Rom connected to the IDE Secondary Channels
the Serial ATA is connected to 3 port due to overclocking and msi detecting bug.
the Serial ATA is NTFS and so the Primary Master.
i want to install WINXP on the Serial ATA and so it will boot from it.
i am using the reguler Primary Master for the boot now,, but i really want to boot from the Serial ATA,,
and plz explain me what the hell are those Raid SATA, and all the other types
PATA and stuff.
and do i need to use the driver RAID/SATA diskett from msi?
it's Western Digital 80GB 8mb
plz help

Quote
Originally posted by Valaire
So... disable the IDE channels (or disconnect the drives temporarily), then just install the drive. You don't have to F6, if you are not using RAID. Parttition and format in Windows XP bootable cd setup.
Does the same hold true with Windows 2000? No need to F6 and add drivers for a single SATA (WD Raptor 36GB) drive?
I am having a devil of a time getting my K8N Neo Plat seeing this single drive, and shall try the tricks in the FAQ thread: Single SATA or Multiple Drive Array Setup FAQ
I cannot even format the SATA drive in the MSI - the system locks up, aborts, or I see ASCII characters in the screen after "format terminated" messages. Drive formats fine in my Asus P4P800-E Deluxe.

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