PCI - SATA controler problem

[khelben1979]

I think I know what the problem is. The Seagate Barracuda harddrive is configured to use a SATA II interface and if the SATA harddrive isn't backward compatible with the older SATA interface, it will not work.

Western Digital SATA harddrives is often backward compatible with it's older SATA interface.

[inobe]

is their a jumper setting for backwards compatibility, not sure for that particular model ?

[naelya]

I think I know what the problem is. The Seagate Barracuda harddrive is configured to use a SATA II interface and if the SATA harddrive isn't backward compatible with the older SATA interface, it will not work.

Western Digital SATA harddrives is often backward compatible with it's older SATA interface.

is their a jumper setting for backwards compatibility, not sure for that particular model ?

According to the Seagate disk specs there is jumper to limit transfer speed from 3.0 Gbits/sec to 1.5 Gbits/sec.
However I do not know if SATA II to SATA for example! or is it something totally different.
having said that, I will try setting the jumper and checking the effect of that as soon as possible, and I will let you know.

thank you.

[naelya]

Hello,

The usage of a jumper to limit the speed of the disk did not fix the problem.
So the question now is. What is next?


dmesg | grep SATA
returns the following:

[ 1.751652] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 port i16@0xc400 bmdma 0xd400 irq 11
[ 1.751713] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 port i16@0xc800 bmdma 0xd408 irq 11
[ 2.082837] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[ 2.410843] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)

and lspci returns:


00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8753 [P4X266 AGP] (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0d.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller (rev 50)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)


Any thoughts?!

Regards.

[naelya]

Hello,

After all the problem was very simple.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 3Gb/s 500GB (ST3500418AS) uses SATA II only and it is not backwards compatible.

I changed my motherboard and it works like a charm.

Thank you all.