sata problems

drew einhorn drew.einhorn at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 17:11:40 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Christopher Chan <
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:

> On Friday, September 24, 2010 01:39 AM, drew einhorn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Sans Digital TRA4M external 4bay sata drive enclosure.
> >
> > With a SiL 3132 one lane pci-e adapter.
> >
> > It connects using a single esata cable, there is a sata port multiplier
> in
> > the enclosure
> >
> > Any ideas on what I should try next to debug this problem?
>
> Do you know what chipset the multiplier is? It could be problems with
> the multiplexer or incompatibility.


Don't know:

Here's the only relevant line I could find in /var/log/messages
 Sep 24 10:11:01 drew-challenge kernel: [ 7067.140342] ata3.15: Port
Multiplier 1.1, 0x1095:0x3726 r23, 6 ports, feat 0x1/0x9

And here's the relevant stuff from lshw

        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RS480 PCI Bridge
             vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
             physical id: 4
             bus info: pci at 0000:00:04.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:0 ioport:d000(size=4096)
memory:fdd00000-fddfffff ioport:fda00000(size=1048576)
           *-storage
                description: RAID bus controller
                product: SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller
                vendor: Silicon Image, Inc.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci at 0000:02:00.0
                logical name: scsi2
                version: 01
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: storage pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
rom emulated
                configuration: driver=sata_sil24 latency=0
                resources: irq:16 memory:fddff000-fddff07f
memory:fddf8000-fddfbfff ioport:dc00(size=128)
memory:fda00000-fda7ffff(prefetchable)
              *-disk:0
                   description: ATA Disk
                   product: ST3750528AS
                   vendor: Seagate
                   physical id: 1.0.0
                   bus info: scsi at 2:1.0.0
                   logical name: /dev/sdc
                   version: CC38
                   serial: 5VP3DPA1
                   size: 698GiB (750GB)
                   capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                   configuration: ansiversion=5
                 *-volume:0
                      description: Linux swap volume
                      physical id: 1
                      bus info: scsi at 2:1.0.0,1
                      logical name: /dev/sdc1
                      version: 1
                      size: 980MiB
                      capacity: 980MiB
                      capabilities: primary multi swap initialized
                      configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096
                 *-volume:1
                      description: EXT3 volume
                      vendor: Linux
                      physical id: 2
                      bus info: scsi at 2:1.0.0,2
                      logical name: /dev/sdc2
                      version: 1.0
                      serial: 827118d4-d74f-4e7c-a9d1-db15c3bdaf8e
                      size: 697GiB
                      capacity: 697GiB
                      capabilities: primary multi journaled
extended_attributes large_files recover ext3 ext2 initialized
                      configuration: created=2010-08-30 00:44:14
filesystem=ext3 modified=2010-09-22 22:30:04 mounted=2010-09-22 22:30:04
state=clean
                 *-volume:2
                      description: Linux raid autodetect partition
                      physical id: 3
                      bus info: scsi at 2:1.0.0,3
                      logical name: /dev/sdc3
                      capacity: 494MiB
                      capabilities: primary multi
              *-disk:1
                   description: ATA Disk
                   product: ST3750528AS
                   vendor: Seagate
                   physical id: 2.0.0
                   bus info: scsi at 2:2.0.0
                   logical name: /dev/sdd
                   version: CC38
                   serial: 5VP3ES8K
                   size: 698GiB (750GB)
                   capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                   configuration: ansiversion=5
                 *-volume:0
                      description: Linux swap volume
                      physical id: 1
                      bus info: scsi at 2:2.0.0,1
                      logical name: /dev/sdd1
                      version: 1
                      size: 980MiB
                      capacity: 980MiB
                      capabilities: primary multi swap initialized
                      configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096
                 *-volume:1
                      description: EXT3 volume
                      vendor: Linux
                      physical id: 2
                      bus info: scsi at 2:2.0.0,2
                      logical name: /dev/sdd2
                      version: 1.0
                      serial: 827118d4-d74f-4e7c-a9d1-db15c3bdaf8e
                      size: 697GiB
                      capacity: 697GiB
                      capabilities: primary multi journaled
extended_attributes large_files recover ext3 ext2 initialized
                      configuration: created=2010-08-30 00:44:14
filesystem=ext3 modified=2010-09-23 16:41:32 mounted=2010-09-23 16:41:32
state=clean
                 *-volume:2
                      description: Linux raid autodetect partition
                      physical id: 3
                      bus info: scsi at 2:2.0.0,3
                      logical name: /dev/sdd3
                      capacity: 494MiB
                      capabilities: primary multi
              *-disk:2
                   description: ATA Disk
                   product: WDC WD800JD-60LS
                   vendor: Western Digital
                   physical id: 3.0.0
                   bus info: scsi at 2:3.0.0
                   logical name: /dev/sdf
                   version: 07.0
                   serial: WD-WMAM9U371833
                   size: 74GiB (80GB)
                   capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                   configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000d8195
                 *-volume:0
                      description: EXT3 volume
                      vendor: Linux
                      physical id: 1
                      bus info: scsi at 2:3.0.0,1
                      logical name: /dev/sdf1
                      version: 1.0
                      serial: 07d3aca7-b57a-44bd-aa60-87df11deeb88
                      size: 101MiB
                      capacity: 101MiB
                      capabilities: primary bootable journaled
extended_attributes recover ext3 ext2 initialized
                      configuration: created=2006-01-15 01:28:26
filesystem=ext3 label=/boot modified=2010-07-28 16:44:43 mounted=2010-07-28
16:44:43 state=clean
                 *-volume:1
                      description: Linux LVM Physical Volume partition
                      physical id: 2
                      bus info: scsi at 2:3.0.0,2
                      logical name: /dev/sdf2
                      serial: 2EzUgh-qFBh-EzXp-LOhq-KCdG-wo4e-CUsLTP
                      size: 74GiB
                      capacity: 74GiB
                      capabilities: primary multi lvm2

The drives have been moved around since the last time I tried writing here.
Hmm.  Somehow the mirrored filesystem from another box got broken.  I
have both halves, and can mount both of them in degraded mode, but I
can't put them together.  Doesn't matter, once I get the data salvaged,
I'll build a brand spanking new mirror.

Anyway at the moment I am successfully copying data from one half
the mirror to a sata drive connected to the motherboard.

It appears that the only thing that doesn't work is trying to copy a whole
filesystem or large directory to a drive on the port multiplier.

Sent somebody out to buy a sata to esata adapter cable,
so I should be able to try with a different controller later today.


-- 
Drew Einhorn

"You can see a lot by just looking."
  --  Yogi Berra
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