error with sata drives

[deepclutch]

I am having a SATA Asus DVD-RW drive and 160GB Sata hard drive currently in My system with Fedora 17.
While booting I see some error message related to sata some times. I fixed sata power cables and transfer cable. still the issue is seen.

this is what I can see in log/messages.

Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    1.026862] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    1.026981] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    1.027097] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    1.027209] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    1.027318] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    1.027468] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)

Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.026908] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.067587] ata3.00: ATA-7: ST3160215AS, 4.AAB, max UDMA/133
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.067681] ata3.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.125887] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.126256] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3160215AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.126538] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.126579] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte logical blocks: (160 GB/149 GiB)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.126665] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.126714] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.256157]  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 >
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.256813] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.331727] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.331939] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.332035] ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [   11.636591] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [   11.636780] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [   16.941438] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)

Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.026908] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.067587] ata3.00: ATA-7: ST3160215AS, 4.AAB, max UDMA/133
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.067681] ata3.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.125887] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.126256] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3160215AS      4.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.126538] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.126579] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte logical blocks: (160 GB/149 GiB)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.126665] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.126714] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.256157]  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 >
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.256813] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.331727] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.331939] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [    6.332035] ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [   11.636591] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [   11.636780] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)
Jun 21 21:19:44 localhost kernel: [   16.941438] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)

can someone help Me what is wrong here.

Thanks in Advance.

[george_toolan]

So what exactly is the problem?

Your DVD drive doesn't like to IDENTIFY itself, but is it still working?

Apparently some DVD drives don't like the AHCI mode of your sata host adapter.

What kind of motherboard do you have?

Does it have more than six sata ports or can you configure some of the sata ports in ide mode rather than AHCI or RAID?

[deepclutch]

Mine is a Intel DH67CL ATX motherboard. it is on AHCI mode. it has like 2 sata6gbps and 2sata3gbps ports.
I am trying to find a error which goes like "xfer error ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x100)"

and got it :

Jun 19 05:44:50 localhost kernel: [   11.614408] ata4.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x100)
Jun 19 05:44:50 localhost kernel: [   11.614469] ata4.00: disabled
Jun 19 05:44:50 localhost kernel: [   11.614483] ata4: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x800000 action 0x6 frozen t4
Jun 19 05:44:50 localhost kernel: [   11.614541] ata4: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
Jun 19 05:44:50 localhost kernel: [   11.614598] ata4: SError: { LinkSeq }
Jun 19 05:44:50 localhost kernel: [   11.614655] ata4: hard resetting link
Jun 19 05:44:50 localhost kernel: [   11.918799] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
Jun 19 05:44:50 localhost kernel: [   11.918810] ata4: EH complete

What is wrong here?

[george_toolan]

Can you try a different sata cable and port?

You might have to disable AHCI if your burner doesn't like it.

Originally Posted by george_toolan

Can you try a different sata cable and port?

You might have to disable AHCI if your burner doesn't like it.

Or use the port with IDE/sata compatibility mode.

[deepclutch]

fine.thank You @george, @Yellowman. I will try with port settings.

[george_toolan]

Try to connect the DVD drive to the (internal) red sata port.