sata problems
Nataraj
incoming-ubuntu at rjl.com
Sat Sep 25 02:38:02 UTC 2010
drew einhorn wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
> <mailto: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
I have had a similar problem with USB connected SATA drives (system
crashes or hangs when writing to more than 1 drive simultaneously, read
from one, write to another works) and decided to try moving them to an
ESATA interface. I have heard that the AHCI based controllers on the
motherboard are often the most reliable soulutions. I'm planning to
try this card which is sil3124 based. At least a handful of people have
reported success with the 3124 chipset.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/DAT%20Optic/ESATAPCIE8/
Nataraj
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