Questions tagged [sata]
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Seagate Pipeline HD hard-drive not found in Asus UEFI bios
Seagate Pipeline HD hard-drive not found in Asus UEFI bios. Though when the machine is booted into Arch Linux with a live usb on the same machine it shows up.
Hard-Drive
Model Name: Pipeline HD
Model:...
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Why is blkdiscard not erasing all data of the whole drive?
I have an old mSATA SSD (model name: Plextor PX-128M6M), which is installed to an mSATA-to-USB enclosure with ASM1153E controller.
I want to (just logically, at the SSD controller level) erase all of ...
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What is "horkage"?
There are a lot of constants in the Kernel named with HORKAGE,
ATA_HORKAGE_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM
ATA_HORKAGE_NODMA
ATA_HORKAGE_ATAPI_MOD16_DMA
ATA_HORKAGE_NO_DMA_LOG
ATA_HORKAGE_NO_ID_DEV_LO
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"Read Capacity(10) failed" and "Sense Key : Illegal Request" with a SATA-to-USB adapter
What is the meaning of these error messages in the system log, when I plug in a 2.5" spinning-disk SATA drive that I know works, using a USB-to-SATA adapter?
Jun 25 16:08:07 hostname kernel: [...
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PCIe SATA controller problem in re hard drive capacity
I have tried two different expansion cards in a machine running Debian 11 -
An older PCIe SATA controller with:
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9215 PCIe 2.0 x1 4-port SATA 6 Gb/s Controller (rev ...
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USB 3.0 SuperSpeed SATA bridge only detected as High-Speed device
I have some USB/SATA bridge device (Scythe Kama Connect) that claims (on its colorful box) to support USB 3.0 SuperSpeed.
However, when I connect it to an AlderLake Linux system it's only detected as ...
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Is my disk failing?
I'm troubleshooting a Debian Buster system that occasionally becomes unresponsive. Looking at dmesg, I see some alarming messages pop up:
[Wed Apr 19 19:39:47 2023] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct ...
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how to minimize hdd spinups?
I have a mdadm RAID 1 of two Toshiba MG09 18Ts in my pc but I don't need to access them very often, maybe 1-2 times a week.
I'm booting the pc once per day which also spins up the hdds.
When using a ...
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SSD's SMART Status not supported behind DELL PERC H730 Mini controller
I would like to output the temperature for each of my drives (NVME, SATA, SAS) in my Dell R630, but it couldn't show my SATA Samsung SSD 870 EVO 250GB (/dev/sdc)'s temperature, which is behind DELL ...
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ata1.00: unexpected _GTF length (8) in dmesg
Im running Debian 11 (KDE) on my Macbookair7,2 and am trying to clear boot alerts.
Entering dmesg
ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
**ata1.00: unexpected _GTF length (8)**
ata1.00:...
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How to capture SATA traffic under Linux?
Using usbmon it's possible to capture USB traffic in Wireshark.
I want to do the same for SATA.
Is it possible?
If it is not possible in Wireshark directly it would be nice to later open the capture ...
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Problem mounting HDD connected via PCIe SATA Controller
I'm using an ASMedia SATA Controller card model 1062.
I've looked at ASMedia SATA controller 106x not working under ubuntu and ASmedia SATA controller PCIe card not working on ubuntu because I thought ...
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How to Verify a Fix to smartctl Error?
My harddrive got some errors per smartctl short test result (see below).
Then, I just zero-ed out data on my disk first for privacy reason:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M
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External HDD disconnects when formating. Disk or SATA-to-USB adapter problem?
My SATA HD used as an external disk connected to a USB port is not working. When I try to format it using sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdj1, I get: "Input/output error while writing out and closing file ...
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ata1.00 errors about a SSD
I have a new SSD, Crucial BX500, on my laptop Acer ES1-732. I have installed a Debian Bullseye distribution.
I often have some ata errors like these:
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector ...
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Deciphering smartctl results
I'm trying to use an internal 2.5" HDD to serve as my external storage media and for backups. This HDD had been previously on a Windows machine for a long time before some of my files became ...
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Linux kernel keeps waking up HDD that was put to sleep via hdparm
(My system is Debian 11 Bullseye + GNOME 3.38.6)
I have a Seagate 2TB only for storage purpose, and as it's quite loud I put it to sleep unless I access the storage, using the command:
sudo hdparm -Y /...
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1 of 6 harddisks gone after wakeup/resume from S3 (suspend to RAM)
For a few days now each time I systemctl suspend (S3/Suspend to RAM) my PC one of the hard disks disappears. There is no /dev/sdb any more, though /dev/sda and /dev/sdc through /dev/sdf remain. It ...
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Really Remapping Bad Blocks on disk
I have a SATA drive which has a total of 8 bad blocks identified by the badblocks program. Supposedly the drive firmware should be able to remap them and substitute spares. I've run badblocks in -n ...
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Why must I provide authentication to mount SATA HDDs? Why are they in read-only mode?
I am running Fedora 36, and have two or three HDDs connected via SATA (including the drive that Fedora on). When I attempt to access the drives in the file manager for the first time since power-on, ...
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dual boot Windows and Linux, SATA Mode
I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 next to each other, recently I had updated my BIOS version(such a mistake), and couldn't boot any system, so I set up default BIOS version.
So now I can load Windows,...
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Switching a M.2 NVMe card from ahci (SATA) driver to nvme driver on Linux
On a very old laptop (HP 9470m), I have a M.2 NVMe card (WD Blue™ SN550 NVMe™ SS) passing through a NVMe -> SATA converter card to connect to the laptop, as the laptop has no NVMe support. With a ...
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ASmedia SATA controller PCIe card not working on ubuntu
I am having the same issue as this question:
ASMedia SATA controller 106x not working under ubuntu
However, the answer there did not work for me. I have an ASMedia PCIe SATA card installed, and it ...
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How to get a PCIe Mini-SAS card working in Linux?
I can't seem to get this PICe card working and I can't find any info/drivers about it on the internet. All the SATA HDDs in my server are connected using this card which came with the system. It works ...
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ASMedia SATA controller 106x not working under ubuntu
I've added PCIe ASMedia SATA controller to my PC. It's working fine under win10 but not with ubuntu.
lspci returned that:
01:00.0 IDE interface: ASMedia Technology Inc. Device 0624 (rev 01) (prog-if ...
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Why doesn't fdisk -l not show all connected drives?
I've found countless threads started by others where they can't boot from a device because they are using the wrong SATA configuration. Let me assure you this is not my issue.
I work in an IT dept for ...
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Why the subsystem of a SATA device is scsi?
By doing udevadm info -a /dev/sda
we can see something like:
looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:3d/0000:3d:02.0/0000:60:00.0/host6/port-6:0/end_device-6:0/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0':
KERNELS==&...
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Getting FreeBSD to recognize a 8th SATA drive?
I have a TrueNAS Mini E (running FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE-p14), which comes pre-configured with seven drives: 4 3.5" for main storage, two SSD caches, and a boot disk. The hardware has two more SATA ...
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smartctl questions (newbie) for Silicon Power 1TB caddy USB external HD
OS: MX Linux 19.4
USB external HDD: Silicon Power 1TB HDD (reported as ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB, size: 931.51 GiB, block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B, rotation: 5400 rpm in Quick System Info in ...
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How to make sure if I rescued all the data from a corrupted ext4 partition?
Here's the history log of the partition:
https://cloudvyzor.com/logpad/?query&database=sandbox-d306970d9822474714fbfa85aab4af94
sorted with unique entries: https://cloudvyzor.com/logpad/?query&...
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Sata III hard drives not recognized by ECS motherboard caused data corruption of hard drives
I connected two new sata hard drives to my ECS G31T-M9 motherboard. They are mechanical SATA III hdd's 500 GB and 1 TB respectively.
Issues started to happen with this 500 GB drive first, the ...
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SATA interface timeout and reset, on exact multiples of 30 minutes, under Linux. Kernel bug?
Frequently my system locks up for perhaps 60 seconds, with the hard drive light illuminated. This is followed by an apparent SATA reset. The system doesn't crash; filesystems are accessible as normal ...
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Check for host protected area and device configuration overlay
I'd like to know whether any sectors on my solid state drive are inaccessible due to
the host protected area (HPA)
or the device configuration overlay (DCO)
Is there a file in /proc/ I can read or ...
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Restoring a very old hard drive
I have an old SATA harddrive with important footage on it. 15 years ago this harddrive "died" on a Windows OS. I saved the HD. Now I am going to plug it back into my Linux OS to see if ...
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HPE MicroServer problem with disks on Proxmox Server (Debian)
I have a problem with disks on HPE MicroServer gen10 plus.
My server has 4 1TB HDD disks and 1 SSD NVMe on PCIE for OS. OS is Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.2-4.
I do not have any problems with this ...
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change order of SATA and RAID controller when booting linux kernel
I have onboard SATA controller, and also an additional RAID controller card:
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device a282
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04:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID ...
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Follow up questions for using ddrescue with a USB enclosure
I was unable to recover my other account where I originally asked a question, so I'm hoping it's ok that I ask some follow up questions here
I'm looking to use ddrescue to clone a failing drive that I ...
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ddrescue with USB Enclosure
I'm about to start a recovery with ddrescue and was wondering if I'm on the right path with these steps. I'm planning to:
boot via Ubuntu live USB and use ddrescue
disable automount in Ubuntu
connect ...
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ataX softreset failed 1st fis failed after switching motherboard
I got these messages for all drives after upgrading motherboard and processor from Intel to AMD
Happened on all 5 disks: ata1, ata14, ata2, ata5, ata6 (weirdly there's only 6 sata ports in the ...
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Replacing old SATA cables. Could the old ones be cause of dmesg errors on HDDs?
Background
When I assembled one of my servers with brand new disks WD Red 3TB, I have possibly made grave error in judgement, which was to use one older and one really old SATA (wikipedia) cables. My ...
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How to interpret these smartctl results? Possible solutions?
Do I need to dump my SATA hard disk, based on the following smartctl results?
I was frequently getting filesystem errors during boot time and even fsck failed to repair it last time. Then I used a ...
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Why do 5 drives disappear when I scan for them?
I am trying to diagnose why my raid6 array of 20 hard drives stopped working on my ubuntu installation. I noticed that when I tried to force it to start, several drives simply stopped being listed in ...
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Passthrough SATA Controller KVM
Ahoy friends.
Currently i use Fedora 31 and KVM to run a few virtual machines, including my storage machine, based on FreeBSD.
All the HDDs which are connected to my SATA controller should be passed ...
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Does Linux 3.1 support Intel Optane?
Does Arch Linux kernel 3.1 support Intel Optane? It boots in my system on SATA. Is there Intel Optane on SATA? Or does Linux 3.1 support any other Optane interface (like NVMe)? It is a digital music ...
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How to switch from NVMe to AHCI
I am a beginner and I know that NVMe is new and has advantages over AHCI for SSDs. But, I have one small question?
A SATA SSD can talk both AHCI and NVMe and the OS also has drivers for both NVMe ...
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SATA drive validation
I am trying to validate a drive that supports secure erase in multiple formats. The format is specified in a vendor specific ATA-8 packet. Our technician has solved the issue quite ingeniously by ...
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SATA hard disk not recognized
there seems to be a problem with the hard disk. I just wanted to know if I can fix it somehow or I should throw it away. the problem is that the hard disk is not recognized.
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How to mount internal drives as a normal user in NixOS?
In for example Thunar I can just click on an external USB drive to mount it under /run/media/$USER/[something]. The fact that the mount point is created dynamically is a great side effect. But for any ...
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Why does ATA Secure Erase occur concurrently rather than in parallel with PATA drives?
When issuing the ATA secure erase command via hdparm against multiple SATA (non-SSD) drives it occurs in parallel.
However when the same command is issued against PATA drives, it occurs ...
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Why does hdparm return 2 differing results when AHCI is enabled and disabled?
When invoking the hdparm command to securely erase devices e.g. ATA SECURE ERASE, the output hdparm -I /dev/sda and hdparm -I /dev/sdb differ with AHCI enabled and disabled.
Both devices are SATA ...
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