[wplug] Help with Installing 500GB Western Digital Drive

[Greg Simkins]

I purchased a 1U server unit with an ASUS K8N-DRE Motherboard outfitted 
with AMD Opteron Dual Processors.  It came with two 80GB hard drives.  I 
installed ubuntu 64 bit server on one of the 80GB drives and tried to 
replace the second 80GB drive with a Western Digital 500 GB SATA 300 
Hard Drive.  I am no expert in Linux and can't get the new drive 
mounted.  It appears to not be recognized properly by the BIOS. 

My immediate question is - should I get another Brand of SATA drive?  
Like the Maxtor that seems to work OK at 80GB?  Or is the size the 
problem - perhaps I should flash the BIOS from Version 1003 to 1005?  (I 
need to somehow mount a floppy drive and find a DOS system disk, which I 
am working on now).  Or - any other suggestions on where to direct 
troubleshooting efforts?  I pasted in below, the relevant information 
which I have gathered so far. 

Thanks,

Greg



Here is a summary of what I copied from the BIOS screen:

Third IDE Master Maxtor 6L080M0 80.0 GB
Fourth IDE Master    [no information here]
                                    Third Master                     
Fourth Master
Device:                         Hard Disk                         Hard 
Disk      [at least it is recognized as  a hard disk!]
Vendor:                        Maxtor 6Y080M0             [no 
information here]
Size:                             80.0 GB                             0 MB
CBA Mode:                 Supported                           Not Supported
Block Mode:                16 Sectors                           Not 
Supported
PIO Mode:                   4                                         
Not Supported
Async DMA:               Multiword DMA-2             Not Supported
Ultra DMA:                 Ultra DMA-6                      Not Supported
S.M.A.R.T:                  Supported                            Not 
Supported

Looking at fstab, I see a connection for a floppy and a CD ROM (neither 
of which came with the unit) and some sort of recognition of the WD (I 
believe) as sda5 (During the book cycle I get an error message about the 
4th master drive failing, press F1 to continue - the OS comes up fine). 

greg at SHHubuntu:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=ea5f0450-7f3d-4a31-be49-f7982ee346b7 /               ext3    
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=96dc3461-e176-44a8-868e-686857c481b5 none            swap    
sw              0       0
/dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0



Running DMESG to find the boot problems, here is the section where the 
80Gb mounts successfully and the WD generates a bunch of errors (I can't 
find error 62 - maybe it doesn't matter).

Other SATA devices?

[  234.754261] sata_nv 0000:00:07.0: version 3.3
[  234.754868] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LTID] enabled at IRQ 20
[  234.754880] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> Link [LTID] -> GSI 
20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[  234.754896] sata_nv 0000:00:07.0: Using ADMA mode
[  234.754916] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
[  234.755044] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc2000001a480 ctl 
0xffffc2000001a4a0 bmdma 0x000000000001e000 irq 20
[  234.755120] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc2000001a580 ctl 
0xffffc2000001a5a0 bmdma 0x000000000001e008 irq 20

I see the first Maxtor come up as ata.

[  234.755132] scsi0 : sata_nv
[  235.077514] usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 2
[  235.225308] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[  235.234343] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 156250000, 
hpa_sectors = 156250000
[  235.234351] ata1.00: ATA-7: Maxtor 6L080M0, BACE1G10, max UDMA/133
[  235.234355] ata1.00: 156250000 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[  235.246261] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 156250000, 
hpa_sectors = 156250000
[  235.246265] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133

The Western Digital was not recognized in the first line and came up as 
usb with the error -62.

[  235.246278] scsi1 : sata_nv
[  235.261225] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[  235.548776] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[  235.716536] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[  235.724603] ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, 
err_mask=0x80)
[  235.828338] usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 3
[  236.012050] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[  236.299602] usb 2-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62
[  236.579163] usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 4
[  236.858750] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[  236.866816] ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, 
err_mask=0x80)
[  236.866821] ata2.00: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5
[  236.994513] usb 2-4: device not accepting address 4, error -62
[  237.170241] usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 5
[  237.585589] usb 2-4: device not accepting address 5, error -62
[  238.000965] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[  238.009031] ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, 
err_mask=0x80)
[  239.143177] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)