[vox-tech] hard drive light stays on? 4k sectors WDS10EADS

[Brian Lavender]

I put together an MSI Wind box at the beginning of the year with a Western
Digital 1TB drive that uses 4kb sectors (WD10EADS). It seems that the SATA
link fails to respond at startup (see below) and the drive light stays on
after bootup.  Otherwise, things seem to work fine. I am not sure if the
drive got mapped or formatted (however you say it) with 4kb sectors. It
looks like the kernel messages is reporting 512-byte sectors. Any advice?

I searched Google and I couldn't seem to fine a straight answer, except
for that some were not too happy with this drive.  How is I tell if I
installed correctly for this drive? I am using Debian lenny.

brian

# dmesg
[snip]
[    4.546613] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xd080 ctl 0xd000 bmdma 0xc800 irq 19
[    4.546613] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xcc00 ctl 0xc880 bmdma 0xc808 irq 19
[    4.709716] ata1.00: ATA-8: WDC WD10EADS-00P8B0, 01.00A01, max UDMA/133
[    4.709839] ata1.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
[    4.717732] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[    9.758763] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[   14.742601] ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[   19.938656] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[   24.754529] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16)
[   29.950794] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[   34.766746] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16)
[   39.962746] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[   69.810999] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16)
[   74.838992] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16)
[   74.839100] ata2: reset failed, giving up
[   74.839422] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD10EADS-00P 01.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   74.889472] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[   74.889472] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors (1000205 MB)
[   74.889737] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   74.889870] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   74.889957] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   74.890336] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors (1000205 MB)
[   74.890562] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   74.890709] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   74.890819] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   74.891003]  sda: sda1 sda2
[   74.907135] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[   75.269285] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[   75.269285] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.13.0-ioctl (2007-10-18) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
[   75.946562] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   75.946562] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   77.254465] udevd version 125 started
[   79.030062] agpgart: Detected an Intel 945G Chipset.
[   79.030460] agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
[   79.050069] agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000
[   79.537875] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   79.538221] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
[   79.575932] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC883, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
[   79.790133] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input3
[   79.820697] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[   79.824041] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input4
[   79.887699] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[   80.841774] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input5
[   80.858507] intel_rng: FWH not detected
[   81.308610] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[   83.911593] EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
[   84.724755] loop: module loaded
[   86.412005] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   86.412061] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[   86.412061] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   86.464343] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   86.468534] EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal
[   86.468732] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   86.535053] Adding 6017016k swap on /dev/mapper/small-swap_1.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:6017016k

-- 
Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture