FC10 & Promise SATA 300 TX4 - SATA link down

shadowwyvern · #1 20th December 2008, 04:06 AM

Hello there,

I have 4 drives connected to a Promise SATA 300 TX4. 3 of them are just fine, but 1 is seen by the card (on boot) but not by FC10. Looking at dmesg, I see

Code:

ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)

The drive is a 500GB made by WD ( WD5000AAKS I think ), if that matters. Any ideas how to resolve this problem?

Thanks much.

notageek · #2 23rd December 2008, 02:35 PM

No idea why this is happeneing, however I found these links, which may help you.

How to get promise_sata working:
http://www.igso.net/nkb/Linux_and_Promise_SATA_20376

Links which discusses this issue:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-id.../msg14837.html
http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=120041881108604&w=2
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/li...09.1/1328.html
http://www.debianhelp.org/node/13594

Maybe they have the information that can help you.