NASLite Network Attached Storage

I have setup a new NASLite Server from a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP MB P4 2.4gig HT with 2gig RAM. I started out with a small WD 40GIG IDE drive for testing. With onboard giga lan it would xfer files between 25 and 31MB sec from a Vista machine that also has gig lan.

Then I ordered 2 500gig Maxtor SATA HD from tiger direct. Plugged them into the Intel ICH5 SATA ports and have CD-ROM and 40gig IDE on IDE 0.

Nothing but very slow performance. Xfers via SMB start out about 16meg sec and slow way down to 1mb or less.

I have read through the various forums and see others with large (>400gig) SATA drives having problems.

I tried various recommendations like turning off SMART. BIOS default is to map SATA 0/1 to unused IDE so in my case they map to Secondary IDE Master/Slave. I tried other BIOS option of native SATA port 0 and 1 and have the same results. Also when STA drive are plugged in even the 40gig IDE drive has slow xfers.

I read a posting where someone mentioned HD jumpers. I check the Maxtor units and they have a jumper setting to force SATA 150mb mode vice 300. Since the GA-8KNXP is an older MB with SATA 1 support I tried the jumper. Same results, Nothing seems to work. I really want to get this up and running. Any suggestions?

Log below:

Mar 23 21:38:07 syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2007.01.20-18:39+0000)
Mar 23 21:38:07 daemon.info init: ^MStarting pid 2660, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2007.01.20-18:39+0000)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.33.NASLite (root@TZT) (gcc version 3.3.6) #1 Tue Aug 15 01:08:13 UTC 2006
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fff0000 (usable)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000007fff0000 - 000000007fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000007fff3000 - 0000000080000000 (ACPI data)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.notice kernel: 896MB LOWMEM available.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 229376
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: zone(1): 225280 pages.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 GBT ) @ 0x000f6ca0
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x7fff3000
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x7fff3040
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x7fff70c0
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Detected 2612.612 MHz processor.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 5216.66 BogoMIPS
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Memory: 901876k/917504k available (2198k kernel code, 15240k reserved, 734k data, 536k init, 0k highmem)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping 09
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Checking for popad bug. OK.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb460, last bus=3
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.2
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Transparent bridge - PCI device 8086:244e
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 3
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 7
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (22 C)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.7.6-k1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 02:01.0 to 64
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hda: ST340014A, ATA DISK drive
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdb: YAMAHA CRW3200E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdc: Maxtor 7H500F0, ATA DISK drive
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdd: Maxtor 7H500F0, ATA DISK drive
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hda: host protected area => 1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hda: setmax_ext LBA 78165360, native 78163247
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hda: 78163247 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdc: host protected area => 1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hdc: 976773168 sectors (500108 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=60801/255/63
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdd: attached ide-disk driver.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdd: host protected area => 1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hdd: 976773168 sectors (500108 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=60801/255/63
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Partition check:
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host1/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Aug 15 2006 01:22:52)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.20 loaded.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: PCI(00:1f.2): version 1.05
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: PCI(00:1f.2): combined mode detected (p=0, s=1)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ata: 0x1f0 IDE port busy
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: ata: 0x170 IDE port busy
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: PCI device 8086:24dd
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: irq 7, pci mem f882b000
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 00:1d.7
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hub.c: 8 ports detected
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb000, IRQ 11
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb400, IRQ 3
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb800, IRQ 5
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: d, assigned bus number 4
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.3 to 64
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbc00, IRQ 11
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1619k freed
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 536k freed
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdd: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdd: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.warn kernel: hdd: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide1(22,1)
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide1(22,65), internal journal
Mar 23 21:38:07 user.info kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

I refromated Disk 1 to see if that would change anything. Also left it at EXT2 format. Drive 2 has EXT3.

srodgers:

I'm not sure if you show the complete SysLog ... I think you do, but notice there's not a single mention of "ICH5".

I too had a very strange problem with SATA drives ... take a look at http://www.serverelements.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1677&highlight=ICH5&.

Notice my BAD SysLog (green) does not mention ICH5 either (or SATA for that matter). But the blue "correct" SysLog listing DOES.

Read all the way to the bottom and see if your BIOS has additional (non-sensical) options that could fix this.

And report back with any progress ... hope this helps.

Georg

georg,
Thanks for the link. I read that and have similar options in the BIOS except for SATA I only have NONE, AUTO, MANUAL, I tried manual and mapping the 2 SATA ports to SATA0 and SATA1. Same results with really slow xfer rates. Other manual option is to map SATA ports to either IDE PRI or IDE SEC which ends the same as AUTO mode.

I think I will try just the SATA drives without the IDE 40gig attached and then try the two Silicone Image SATA Ports to see if NASLite works any better than the 2 Intel ports. Below is the log:

ICH5 ansd SATA references in Red. The other two SATA ports by Silicone Image in blue:

Mar 26 17:02:26 syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2007.01.20-18:39+0000)
Mar 26 17:02:26 daemon.info init: ^MStarting pid 2443, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2007.01.20-18:39+0000)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.33.NASLite (root@TZT) (gcc version 3.3.6) #1 Tue Aug 15 01:08:13 UTC 2006
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fff0000 (usable)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000007fff0000 - 000000007fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000007fff3000 - 0000000080000000 (ACPI data)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.notice kernel: 896MB LOWMEM available.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 229376
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: zone(1): 225280 pages.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 GBT ) @ 0x000f6ca0
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x7fff3000
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x7fff3040
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x7fff70c0
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Detected 2612.586 MHz processor.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 5216.66 BogoMIPS
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Memory: 901876k/917504k available (2198k kernel code, 15240k reserved, 734k data, 536k init, 0k highmem)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping 09
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Checking for popad bug. OK.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb460, last bus=3
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Transparent bridge - PCI device 8086:244e
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 3
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 7
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (22 C)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.7.6-k1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 02:01.0 to 64
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ICH5: chipset revision 2
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: hda: ST340014A, ATA DISK drive
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: hdb: YAMAHA CRW3200E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: hda: host protected area => 1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hda: setmax_ext LBA 78165360, native 78163247
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hda: 78163247 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(100)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Partition check:
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Aug 15 2006 01:22:52)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.20 loaded.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: PCI(00:1f.2): version 1.05
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC000 ctl 0xC402 bmdma 0xD000 irq 5
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC800 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xD008 irq 5
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f69 84:4773 85:7c68 86:3e01 87:4763 88:207f
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f69 84:4773 85:7c68 86:3e01 87:4763 88:207f
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: scsi1 : ata_piix
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: scsi2 : ata_piix
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 7H500F0 Rev: HA43
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 7H500F0 Rev: HA43
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: PCI(03:0b.0): version 0.9
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF882B080 ctl 0xF882B08A bmdma 0xF882B000 irq 11
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF882B0C0 ctl 0xF882B0CA bmdma 0xF882B008 irq 11
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: scsi3 : sata_sil
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: scsi4 : sata_sil
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: SCSI device sdb: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: .org>
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: PCI device 8086:24dd
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: irq 3, pci mem f882d000
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 00:1d.7
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hub.c: 8 ports detected
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbc00, IRQ 10
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb000, IRQ 11
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb400, IRQ 5
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.3 to 64
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb800, IRQ 10
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1619k freed
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 536k freed
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.err kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.err kernel: ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: ata2: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,17), internal journal
Mar 26 17:02:26 user.info kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

More testing completed.

When I disconnect the two SATA drives and test NASLite-2 with just a IDE 40gig. I get 24-26mb xfer. I watched task manager in Windows while xfer was running. Clicked on Network Tab to see graph of Network data during test. When it is just the IDE drive connected I see steady network graph, when either or both of the SATA drives are connected the network usage goes through a cycle of burst of activity and then nothing for about 30 seconds then it repeats this cycle in steady increments. Overall xfer speed is really slow compare to just IDE drive.

I have screen captures that illustrate this if I can get them uploaded somewhere and BLOCKED_WORD for the forlum.

The problem is definitely SATA drive related. I have a smaller 160 SATA drive I will try and then I will try the Sil SATA ports to see if NASLite2 treats them different from the ICH5 Intel ones.


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Well the Sil 3112 SATA ports exhibit the same problem as the Intel SATA ports. Erratic xfers and overall slow network performance.

Will try smaller SATA drives tommorrow and then I am stuck again.

System works fine with no SATA drives connected. I am trying to shuffle some data around to free up a 160gig SATA from another machine for testing to rule out size of HD.

Hate to even mention this but I kicked FreenAS around as well when evaluating NAS software. I specifically went with NASLite2 based on forum posting of maturity/speed/supportability.

Now the bad part. Just performed a test with FreeNAS with same two 500GIG SATA drives on same hardware and get nice smooth fast file xfers. 30-32mb sec and smooth task Manager graph of network speed. I know this is not really a scientific comparison of xfer speeds but It does seem to point towards a NASLite2 problem with this particular MB/SATA/HD setup.

I really like this Gigabyte MB GA-8KNXP MB because it has 4 IDE controllers for 8 total IDE drives supported plus 4 SATA ports for a total of 12! This seems to be the perfect large expandable NAS MB.

I started out with 2 large 500gig SATA HD but have yet to get them working well enough for any use beyond testing/trouble shooting. I hate to give up on SATA drives and switch to IDE just make NASLite work.

Anybody have any suggestions?

If it's any consolation ... I just looked at doing a complete SMART on my pair of Seagate 400GB HDD. This is the same setup which originally gave me the slow mirror experience (my http://www.serverelements.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1677 post ) until a (very unusual) BIOS setting fixed that. And although I have been happily using this secondary server as a mirror ... I now have a different & new issue. The complete SMART will not run, even though SMART is available and enabled. The normal short SMART says it "PASSED" (every 10 minutes, which is my interval). However, upon closer inspection two hints stand out: in Disk-0 Status page is says "Not in smartctl database", and when asking for the full SMART test in Disk-0 Configuration menu, although it accepts the "Y" response, it says "Extended Background Self Test has begun Please wait 0 minutes for test to complete. Estimated completion time: <the date/time shown here is the CURRENT time>".

Conclusion: we need Tony and/or Ralph in on this.

QUESTION: is the next version (2.05) going to use the Linux 2.6 kernel which might fix this ?

QUESTION: is there a way to get rid of the "Not in smartctl database" by adding something simple ?

QUESTION: is this in any way related to the "Sata drive is showing but I cannot format it" posting ?

Georg

The above usually indicates hardware problems. In your case it's likely a misconfiguration. Possible causes can be IRQ problems or SATA cables on SATAII drive/interface as well as a number of other possibilities.

The first thing I'll try is make sure the drives are set to SATA (1.5G mode), second turn off all unnecessary items in the BIOS including USB (since you are using the CDD version).

If you are using multiple SATA controllers, try with one first.

The first thing you should target is eliminating the "DriveStatusError" messages in the syslog.

Hope that helps...

Interesting info to report.

AGAIN, remember my initial trouble with the slow mirroring. Then I changed the BIOS and everything was fine. But (as I found today) the full SMART won't run, except to say "Please wait 0 minutes for test to complete." (note the 0 minutes).

Here's the complete text from the telnet screen: (in green, because that's how the SATA drives and mirroring work just fine):
[ Test32 ] - Administration Utility - NASLite-2 USB v2.04 02-2007


Initiating Disk-0 Extended S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test.

smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Extended Background Self
Test has begun Please wait 0 minutes for test to complete. Estimated
completion time: Tue Mar 27 14:00:08 2007 Use smartctl -X to abort test

Do you wish to allow Disk-0 Extended S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test to complete?
Answering N below will cancel the Extended S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test.

Continue: [Y/N] > Y

I just pulled the server from the closet so I can attach KVM. Changed BIOS back to "AUTO" for SATA mode.

And here's the telnet session: (red, because of slow mirroring)
[ Test32 ] - Administration Utility - NASLite-2 USB v2.04 02-2007


Initiating Disk-1 Extended S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test.

smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF OFFLINE
IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended
self-test routine immediately in off-line mode". Drive command "Execute SMART
Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful. Testing
has begun. Please wait 179 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete
after Tue Mar 27 22:15:04 2007 Use smartctl -X to abort test.

Do you wish to allow Disk-1 Extended S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test to complete?
Answering N below will cancel the Extended S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test.


Continue: [Y/N] > Y.

Remember, in either case the Server Storage Disk-X reports "Not in smartctl database". Also, there are NO errors (status, seek or otherwise) on these drives in the SysLog.

I just started the full SMART, and will try to time it to completion to see how close to the 179 minutes it actually is (if I don't go to bed first).

NOTE: I had to answer TWICE with "Y" to the same question "Do you wish to allow ... to complete ?" ( after a "Y" before that to the previous question. I don't recall in the case of the green listing ... but I think it only asked me ONCE ... )

Georg

UPDATE: Full SMART completed in less than 179 mins ( I guesstimate it was around 150). Does anyone have any ideas why fu;; SMART won't run when the SATAs are configured in"Enhanced" mode in BIOS ?

That has shown once for each drive every time. I thought it might be SMART related and so I turned off SMART in NASLite for all drives but no change. The shows up for the IDE 40gig hda as well as both SATA drives when connected. I have both SATA drives set with "force 150 mode" jumpers enabled since MB is SATA I only. MB is 2003 vintage and was previously used as a MS Media Center PC with 4 SATA drives. Decided to make it a NAS machine based on the number of HDs it supports. Also tried just the INTEL ICH5 SATA Ports and then diabled them and tried the Sil 3112 ports. Same exact symptoms.

Will try again with USB disabled. I already had the audio, serial and LPT ports turned off in BIOS. MB has latest BIOS from Gigabyte. When SATA drives are not connected NASLite works good with just the 40gig connected as IDE0 Pri and CD-ROM IDE0 Sec. Add the SATA drives and networking xfers go south.

Will also try an older smaller SATA I 160gig HD by itself. But I have to backup the data on it somewhere for now so i can format it for NASLite. I might just try it connected without formating it to see if it messes with xfers speeds to teh 40gig IDE and see if Log errors are still present.[/quote]

Tony,
Here is the log with everything on the MB BIOS disabled except onboard LAN and IDE PRI for CD-ROM and 40gig IDE. Still have the one time drive error but see no problem and have nice smooth fast xfer to 40gig. SATAs are unplugged.

Is there any other debuging that I can do? I might try other Linux distros to test.

Mar 28 18:33:57 syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2007.01.20-18:39+0000)
Mar 28 18:33:57 daemon.info init: ^MStarting pid 2102, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2007.01.20-18:39+0000)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.33.NASLite (root@TZT) (gcc version 3.3.6) #1 Tue Aug 15 01:08:13 UTC 2006
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fff0000 (usable)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000007fff0000 - 000000007fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000007fff3000 - 0000000080000000 (ACPI data)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.notice kernel: 896MB LOWMEM available.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 229376
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: zone(1): 225280 pages.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 GBT ) @ 0x000f6ca0
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x7fff3000
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x7fff3040
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x7fff70c0
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Detected 2612.602 MHz processor.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 5216.66 BogoMIPS
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Memory: 901876k/917504k available (2198k kernel code, 15240k reserved, 734k data, 536k init, 0k highmem)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping 09
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Checking for popad bug. OK.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb460, last bus=3
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Transparent bridge - PCI device 8086:244e
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: PI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (22 C)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.7.6-k1
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 02:01.0 to 64
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ICH5: chipset revision 2
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: hda: ST340014A, ATA DISK drive
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: hdb: YAMAHA CRW3200E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: hda: host protected area => 1
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: hda: setmax_ext LBA 78165360, native 78163247
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: hda: 78163247 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(100)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Partition check:
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Aug 15 2006 01:22:52)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.20 loaded.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1619k freed
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 536k freed
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: : e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.warn kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Mar 28 18:33:57 user.info kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

srodgers:

Tony is your expert here ... but I had a thought. Do you have a PCI NIC ? If yes, turn OFF onboard LAN and try again.

Unlikely ... but worth a try. Looks like this is an Intel 875 chipset, plus Intel Southbridge, so I would not suspect that the gigabit LAN while using ICH5 SATA could be a real problem. But just in case ... What exact Mobo Revision do you have (1.x, 2.x, Ultra, etc) ? What are you using for graphics ?

And, yes, trying another Linux distro is definitely a good debugging step.

Georg

No I do not have another PCI Gig NIC to use. I have some older 10/100 Dlinks PCI cards.
MB is GA-8KNXP Rev 2
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=1717
Latest BIOS version FK. Nvidia 6200 AGP. I have 2gig of RAM Dual Channel. P4 2.4gig HT

Probably way overkill specs for a simple NASLite Box but I had it sitting around unused and bought the 2 500gig SATA for 150.00 each so should have ben a 300 dollar investment + NASLite2 for close to 1TB NAS server with room for more HDs later.

Have to find another PCI GIG NIC to test. Any suggestions for a known compatible model with NASLite2?

Bad thing is that this same seup works great under FreeNAS. I guess that is the difference in underlying OS of FreeBSD vs Linux with regards as to how they use the hardware. I still want to stick with NASLite2. Will try and test under other Linux distros as well as FreeBSD and what ever else I can get free to test.

Update:

Just tried a older SATA I 160gig HD. First test was using SATA BIOS option set to Auto. It maps SATA to IDE1 Pri. Xfer speed really slow 3-4mb. ughhhh.

Next BIOS Option of Manual and set SATA to SATA0 option. Now we are cooking. 38mbsec to the 160 drive!!!! 32mb to the IDE drive.

Conclusions so far: I am hosed on larger SATA II HD even with force 150 mode jumper on. Looks like NasLite likes multiple smaller SATA I drives.

Interesting googling for "libata version 1.20 SATA problem" See all kinds of refs to ICH5, 2.4.x.x versions of kenel. poor performance

So it appears my problems might be related to kernel version and libata version 1.20. and support for larger SATA drives.

Any chance for future NASLite kernel verson and libata version upgrades?

May have to rethink using this MB and NasLite together.

All for now. Thanks Tony and georg for help so far.

srodgers:

Appreciate your diligence in this ... hopefully we will see kernel 2.6 in NASLite at some point soon. Funny though how my mobo (Supermicro) works fine on ICH5 with the proper (but unexpected) BIOS setting ... but thanks for the additional research.

(Mine are 400GB SATA II Seagates with the factory installed force-150 jumper ... I have not tried removing the jumper ... why mess with a good thing ?)

Georg