NASLite Network Attached Storage

I used a PCI sata controller to give an old Asus motherboard (CUV4X-C) some sata functionality. The card is branded 'SATA CONNECT' and is using the VIA V6421A chip. In the CORE3 hardware documentation VIA 6421 (without 'A') is listed. I assumed it should work. It's an old 1.5GB/s - sata 1.0 card.

NASLite-2.62 is loading the driver(s) for the VIA chip; in the Storage Configuration the drive is identified: type, serial number, size etc. When I tried to format the drive, NASLite stops, only a blinking cursor says 'I am still alive'. Hitting the reset button the only solution.
I formatted the same drive on a 3Ware 8006-2LP without any problem. Then, connected to the VIA card, the drive showed up as formatted, but mounting the drive resulted in the same empty screen with a blinking cursor.

Any ideas?

I'd start by the usual routine of disabling unneeded devices in the BIOS. Also, before formatting the drive, take a look at the syslog for details. Post it here if you can.

Have you tested that card on other hardware? Another thing that you may want to try is boot an OEM HD diagnostic utility on the machine and see if the drive passes all the tests on the same hardware.

Anyway, short of incompatible driver, the problem is most likely hardware related.

had mixed results with via sata cards - they seem flakey at best on linux - if you can find one go for one with a promise chipset - they are sold as promise or maxtor - have a couple running - one on core 3 another on the older version

there are usually a few on ebay - dont command silly money - a few pounds usually - most are on US sites so you should find one

Since my discovery of the Hardware Detection Tool (HDT), I ran a test for the VIA V6421A sata controller:

Vendor: VT6421 IDE RAID Controller
Class: RAID bus controller
Location: 00:0b.0
PCI ID: 1106:3249 [1106:3249]
IRQ: 10
Latency: 32
Module: sata_via

The card is recognized, drivers are loaded, but no drive shows up, and there's no BIOS to initiate a drive

With only the VIA card present, the Syslog looks like this:

System Message Log:

* May 14 12:02:25 [3] klogd started: BusyBox v1.12.1 (2009-11-19 21:21:30 UTC)
* May 14 12:02:25 [3] Linux version 2.6.30.3.CORE3 (root@DevBox) (gcc version 4.1.2 (SE 4.1.2 p1.0.2)) #1 Mon Jan 25 02:33:02 UTC 2010
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] KERNEL supported cpus:
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Intel GenuineIntel
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] AMD AuthenticAMD
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] NSC Geode by NSC
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Cyrix CyrixInstead
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Centaur CentaurHauls
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Transmeta GenuineTMx86
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Transmeta TransmetaCPU
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] UMC UMC UMC UMC
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fffc000 (usable)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] BIOS-e820: 000000000fffc000 - 000000000ffff000 (ACPI data)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] BIOS-e820: 000000000ffff000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] DMI 2.3 present.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] last_pfn = 0xfffc max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-000000000fffc000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] 0000000000 - 0000400000 page 4k
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] 0000400000 - 000fc00000 page 2M
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] 000fc00000 - 000fffc000 page 4k
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] kernel direct mapping tables up to fffc000 @ 7000-c000
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] RAMDISK: 0f91f000 - 0fffa0d2
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] ACPI: RSDP 000f6da0 00014 (v00 ASUS )
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] ACPI: RSDT 0fffc000 0002C (v01 ASUS CUV4X_C 30303031 MSFT 31313031)
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] ACPI: FACP 0fffc080 00074 (v01 ASUS CUV4X_C 30303031 MSFT 31313031)
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] ACPI: DSDT 0fffc100 0285A (v01 ASUS CUV4X_C 00001000 MSFT 0100000B)
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] ACPI: FACS 0ffff000 00040
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] ACPI: BOOT 0fffc040 00028 (v01 ASUS CUV4X_C 30303031 MSFT 31313031)
* May 14 12:02:25 [3] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
* May 14 12:02:25 [3] 255MB LOWMEM available.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] mapped low ram: 0 - 0fffc000
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] low ram: 0 - 0fffc000
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] node 0 low ram: 00000000 - 0fffc000
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] node 0 bootmap 00001000 - 00003000
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] (7 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 000fffc000]
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] #1 [0000100000 - 000039b83c] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 000039b83c]
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] #2 [000f91f000 - 000fffa0d2] RAMDISK ==> [000f91f000 - 000fffa0d2]
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] #3 [000009fc00 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009fc00 - 0000100000]
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] #4 [000039c000 - 000039e154] BRK ==> [000039c000 - 000039e154]
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] #5 [0000007000 - 0000008000] PGTABLE ==> [0000007000 - 0000008000]
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] #6 [0000001000 - 0000003000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000001000 - 0000003000]
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] Zone PFN ranges:
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x0000fffc
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] HighMem 0x0000fffc -> 0x0000fffc
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] Movable zone start PFN for each node
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x0000009f
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0000fffc
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] On node 0 totalpages: 65435
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c031d560, node_mem_map c1000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] DMA zone: 3967 pages, LIFO batch:0
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] Normal zone: 480 pages used for memmap
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] Normal zone: 60956 pages, LIFO batch:15
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Using APIC driver default
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] nr_irqs_gsi: 16
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:efff0000)
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 64923
* May 14 12:02:25 [3] Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Initializing CPU#0
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] NR_IRQS:288
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] Fast TSC calibration using PIT
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] Detected 534.636 MHz processor.
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] console [tty0] enabled
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00000000:00000000)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Memory: 249588k/262128k available (1523k kernel code, 11976k reserved, 667k data, 208k init, 0k highmem)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] virtual kernel memory layout:
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] fixmap : 0xfffa9000 - 0xfffff000 ( 344 kB)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] vmalloc : 0xd07fc000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 75
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] 2 MB)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcfffc000 ( 255 MB)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] .init : 0xc0326000 - 0xc035a000 ( 208 kB)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] .data : 0xc027cfdb - 0xc0323e14 ( 667 kB)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc027cfdb (1523 kB)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode.Ok.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency 1069.27 BogoMIPS (lpj=2138544)
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] CPU: L2 cache: 128K
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] CPU: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) stepping 06
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: Core revision 20090320
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c10)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] net_namespace: 296 bytes
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] NET: Registered protocol family 16
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: bus type pci registered
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0d10, last bus=1
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] bio: create slab at 0
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: (supports S0 S5)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: No dock devices found.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xfc000000-0xfdffffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:01.0: supports D1
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:04.1: reg 20 io port: [0xb800-0xb80f]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:04.2: reg 20 io port: [0xb400-0xb41f]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:04.3: reg 20 io port: [0xb000-0xb01f]
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pci 0000:00:04.4: quirk: region e400-e4ff claimed by vt82c586 ACPI
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pci 0000:00:04.4: quirk: region e800-e80f claimed by vt82c686 SMB
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:08.0: reg 10 io port: [0xa800-0xa8ff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:08.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xde000000-0xde0000ff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:08.0: supports D1 D2
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pci 0000:00:08.0: PME# supported from D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pci 0000:00:08.0: PME# disabled
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 10 io port: [0xa400-0xa40f]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 14 io port: [0xa000-0xa00f]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 18 io port: [0x9800-0x980f]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 1c io port: [0x9400-0x940f]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 20 io port: [0x9000-0x901f]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 24 io port: [0x8800-0x88ff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:09.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x00ffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 14 io port: [0xd800-0xd8ff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 18 32bit mmio: [0xdf000000-0xdf00ffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 30 32bit mmio: [0xeffe0000-0xefffffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:01:00.0: supports D1 D2
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:01:00.1: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:01:00.1: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xde800000-0xde80ffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:01:00.1: supports D1 D2
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge io port: [0xd000-0xdfff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xde800000-0xdfefffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:01.0: bridge 32bit mmio pref: [0xe0000000-0xfbffffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci_bus 0000:00: on NUMA node 0
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 *4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
* May 14 12:02:25 [1]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] printing PIC contents
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . PIC IMR: fdfa
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . PIC IRR: 0000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . PIC ISR: 0000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . PIC ELCR: 0200
* May 14 12:02:25 [4]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] printing local APIC contents on CPU#0/0:
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] . APIC ID: 00000000 (0)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] . APIC VERSION: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC TASKPRI: 00000000 (00)
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC RRR: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC LDR: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC DFR: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC SPIV: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC ISR field:
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC TMR field:
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] 0
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] 0000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC IRR field:
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] 00000000000000000000000000000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC ICR: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC ICR2: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC LVTT: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC LVT0: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC LVT1: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC TMICT: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC TMCCT: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] . APIC TDCR: 00000000
* May 14 12:02:25 [4]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] number of MP IRQ sources: 0.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] testing the IO APIC.
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] IRQ to pin mappings:
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] done.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pnp: PnP ACPI init
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] pnp 00:03: io resource (0xe400-0xe47f) overlaps 0000:00:04.4 BAR 7 (0xe400-0xe4ff), disabling
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] system 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] system 00:00: iomem range 0xf0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] system 00:00: iomem range 0x100000-0xfffffff could not be reserved
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfffe0000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] system 00:02: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] system 00:02: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] system 00:03: ioport range 0xe800-0xe80f has been reserved
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pci 0000:00:01.0: IO window: 0xd000-0xdfff
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pci 0000:00:01.0: MEM window: 0xde800000-0xdfefffff
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pci 0000:00:01.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000e0000000-0x000000fbffffff
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:00:01.0: setting latency timer to 64
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 0 io: [0x00-0xffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 1 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 0 io: [0xd000-0xdfff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 1 mem: [0xde800000-0xdfefffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 2 pref mem [0xe0000000-0xfbffffff]
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] NET: Registered protocol family 2
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] TCP reno registered
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] NET: Registered protocol family 1
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] rootfs image is not initramfs (junk in compressed archive); looks like an initrd
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Freeing initrd memory: 7020k freed
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x1
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] msgmni has been set to 501
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] io scheduler noop registered (default)
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pci 0000:00:01.0: disabling DAC on VIA PCI bridge
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] pci 0000:00:04.0: Disabling VIA external APIC routing
* May 14 12:02:25 [1] pci 0000:01:00.0: Boot video device
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] brd: module loaded
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] loop: module loaded
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] cpuidle: using governor ladder
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] TCP cubic registered
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Using IPI Shortcut mode
* May 14 12:02:25 [3] RAMDISK: CORE3 root image found at block 0
* May 14 12:02:25 [4] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 1:0.
* May 14 12:02:25 [2] Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
* May 14 12:02:27 [2] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
* May 14 12:02:27 [2] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
* May 14 12:02:28 [2] rtc_cmos 00:05: RTC can wake from S4
* May 14 12:02:28 [2] rtc_cmos 00:05: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
* May 14 12:02:28 [2] rtc0: alarms up to one year, 242 bytes nvram
* May 14 12:02:29 [2] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input0
* May 14 12:02:29 [2] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input1
* May 14 12:02:29 [2] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
* May 14 12:02:29 [2] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input2
* May 14 12:02:29 [2] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
* May 14 12:02:29 [4] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle
* May 14 12:02:29 [2] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
* May 14 12:02:29 [2] processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device0
* May 14 12:02:29 [2] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 16 throttling states)
* May 14 12:02:30 [2] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
* May 14 12:02:30 [2] via82cxxx 0000:00:04.1: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66
* May 14 12:02:30 [2] via82cxxx 0000:00:04.1: IDE controller (0x1106:0x0571 rev 0x10)
* May 14 12:02:30 [2] via82cxxx 0000:00:04.1: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
* May 14 12:02:30 [2] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807
* May 14 12:02:30 [2] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f
* May 14 12:02:30 [1] Probing IDE interface ide0.
* May 14 12:02:30 [2] hda: TRANSCEND, CFA DISK drive
* May 14 12:02:31 [1] hda: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO5
* May 14 12:02:31 [4] hda: host side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33
* May 14 12:02:31 [2] hda: UDMA/33 mode selected
* May 14 12:02:31 [1] Probing IDE interface ide1.
* May 14 12:02:31 [2] hdc: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S222A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
* May 14 12:02:32 [1] hdc: host max PIO5 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4
* May 14 12:02:32 [4] hdc: host side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33
* May 14 12:02:32 [2] hdc: UDMA/33 mode selected
* May 14 12:02:32 [2] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
* May 14 12:02:32 [2] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
* May 14 12:02:32 [3] SCSI subsystem initialized
* May 14 12:02:32 [1] libata version 3.00 loaded.
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
* May 14 12:02:33 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
* May 14 12:02:33 [1] PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: PCI INT D -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: UHCI Host Controller
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000b400
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.3: PCI INT D -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.3: UHCI Host Controller
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.3: irq 11, io base 0x0000b000
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] 8139too 0000:00:08.0: enabling device (0004 -> 0007)
* May 14 12:02:33 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 4
* May 14 12:02:33 [1] PCI: setting IRQ 4 as level-triggered
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] 8139too 0000:00:08.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 4 (level, low) -> IRQ 4
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xa800, 00:10:a7:10:93:be, IRQ 4
* May 14 12:02:33 [1] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
* May 14 12:02:33 [1] sata_via 0000:00:09.0: version 2.4
* May 14 12:02:33 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
* May 14 12:02:33 [1] PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] sata_via 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] sata_via 0000:00:09.0: routed to hard irq line 10
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] scsi0 : sata_via
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] scsi1 : sata_via
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] scsi2 : sata_via
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 port i16@0xa400 bmdma 0x9000 irq 10
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 port i16@0xa000 bmdma 0x9008 irq 10
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 port i16@0x9800 bmdma 0x9010 irq 10
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
* May 14 12:02:33 [2] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
* May 14 12:02:38 [4] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
* May 14 12:02:43 [5] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
* May 14 12:02:48 [4] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
* May 14 12:02:53 [5] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
* May 14 12:02:58 [4] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
* May 14 12:03:28 [5] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
* May 14 12:03:33 [5] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
* May 14 12:03:33 [5] ata1: reset failed, giving up
* May 14 12:03:33 [2] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] ide-gd driver 1.18
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] hda: max request size: 128KiB
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] hda: 249984 sectors (127 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=248/16/63
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] hda: hda1 hda2
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] ide-cd driver 5.00
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] ide-cd: hdc: ATAPI 16X DVD-ROM DVD-R/RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] input: NOVATEK USB Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/input/input3
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] generic-usb 0003:0603:00F2.0001: input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [NOVATEK USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:04.2-2/input0
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] input: NOVATEK USB Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.1/input/input4
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] generic-usb 0003:0603:00F2.0002: input: USB HID v1.10 Device [NOVATEK USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:04.2-2/input1
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
* May 14 12:03:35 [2] usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
* May 14 12:03:59 [2] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1
* May 14 12:04:00 [5] hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
* May 14 12:04:00 [5] hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
* May 14 12:04:00 [5] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xb0

System message priority, in ascending order, is as follows: [1] - DEBUG, [2] - INFO, [3] - NOTICE, [4] - WARNING, [5] - ERROR, [6] - CRITICAL, [7] - ALERT, [8] - EMERGENCY. The priority defines the severity of the message where CRITICAL, ALERT and EMERGENCY may warrant immediate attention.


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Is that a known good card? There is definitely a problem accessing the drives. Is everything, cables, etc. in order?

Are you just buying cards to test them? Are you really deploying that many machines? LOL

Just yanking your chain.

Mike

I am hooked on cards :-)

Serious: I am -apart from my own NL- taking care of some other NL's and one of them had a problem, and a spare hard drive. The old Asus CUV4X-C motherboard doesn't have a sata connector, the 8006-2LP only two. Like I explained in a previous post, I like redundancy through RAID-1, mirrored to a single drive -and in this case also a daily FTP dump. That's why I bought the VIA card. Since it had these strange problems (yes, cables checked, changed PCI slots) occurred I started browsing ads and this guy wanted to trade the Intel SRCS14L for a bottle of wine (good or bad, doesn't matter). Since I was passing his town anyway, I got the card. He gave me a web cam as well, because 'he was moving to Kenya, emptying his apartment', he said.

So now, since the Intel card is working flawlessly, I have the three drives on that card, RAID-1 and one single host drive.

Got it?

Your killing me! LOL

Got it.

Mike