WD Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA Hard Drives ( WD5000AAKX)

muhammad ammar · #1 31st March 2011, 08:08 AM

Hi All,

My new WD Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA 6 Gb/s Hard Drive (WD5000AAKX) is not being detected on Fedora 14 live.

WD5000AAKX Specs

Any idea?

smr54 · #2 31st March 2011, 11:40 AM

Is it detected on other systems? I've never had that problem with any (including WD) SATA drives. Double check the cables and all that good stuff.

muhammad ammar · #3 31st March 2011, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smr54

Is it detected on other systems? I've never had that problem with any (including WD) SATA drives. Double check the cables and all that good stuff.

Sorry for confusion. The problem is with OS in this case Linux. It is not detected by Fedora 14. The harddisk is working perfectly fine under Windows.

didier83 · #4 31st March 2011, 12:00 PM

I guess it is an external disk ?

If yes, diisconnect it. Then reconnect it and have a look to dmesg command output to check messages related to this drive (if any)

muhammad ammar · #5 31st March 2011, 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by didier83

I guess it is an external disk ?

If yes, diisconnect it. Then reconnect it and have a look to dmesg command output to check messages related to this drive (if any)

No, its an internal drive. I didn't found any error messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages after system boot.

jpollard · #6 31st March 2011, 01:10 PM

Did the BIOS see it?

muhammad ammar · #7 31st March 2011, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpollard

Did the BIOS see it?

Yes, BIOS correctly detected it.

leigh123linux · #8 31st March 2011, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by muhammad ammar

No, its an internal drive. I didn't found any error messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages after system boot.

Post the logs so we can have a look.

rtguille · #9 5th April 2011, 01:55 PM

Post your logfile (messages), the section where the disk ant its partitions are detected:

for example, this is from my netbook:
[ 2.161187] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 2.163605] ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 2.164050] ata1.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HTSXXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX, max UDMA/133
[ 2.164066] ata1.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[ 2.165929] ata1.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
[ 2.166435] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 2.177650] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Hitachi XXXXXXXX PB2O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 2.178161] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte logical blocks: (250 GB/232 GiB)
[ 2.178168] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 2.178440] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 2.178449] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 2.178531] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2.179167] sda: sda1 sda2
[ 2.201914] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

I do own a similar WD 500GB Blue, but it is not sata 6G.
On what sata controller are you connecting the drive?
Does the kernel do not detect your disk or the disk's partitions?
Does the sata controller support 6G (if not, maybe you should see
if the drive has a sata 3G jumper, it may help).