[Soekris] SATA failures on 2 x net5501-70 units

[Patrick Lamaizière]

Le Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:55:32 +0100,
Martin Johnson <martin.johnson.uk.lists at googlemail.com> a écrit :

Hello,

> So, I guess I need to repeat this test on my other recent net5501,
> and then again on my two older net5501's (which are running ATA
> drives) to try to confirm that it is a manufacturing fault with the
> last batch of net5501's.

My box is two months old.
 
> Do you know what firmware revision your WDC2500BEVS has?  When my  
> drive is detected, the combios reports 'WDC WDC2500BEVS-00UST0'.  It  
> would be interesting to see if we have the same drive firmware.

It is the same drive.
The ComBios reports :
Pri Mas WDC WD2500BEVS-00UST0 LBA Xlt 1024-255-63 134 GByte

(The drive is a 250 Gbyte but it does not seem to hurt.)

# atacontrol cap ad0

Protocol              Serial ATA v1.0
device model          WDC WD2500BEVS-00UST0
serial number         WD-WXC208956619
firmware revision     01.01A01
cylinders             16383
heads                 16
sectors/track         63
lba supported         268435455 sectors
lba48 supported       488397168 sectors
dma supported
overlap not supported

Feature                      Support  Enable    Value           Vendor
write cache                    yes	yes
read ahead                     yes	yes
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)   yes	 -	31/0x1F
Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ)   no	no	31/0x1F
SMART                          yes	yes
microcode download             yes	yes
security                       yes	no
power management               yes	yes
advanced power management      yes	yes	128/0x80
automatic acoustic management  yes	no	254/0xFE
128/0x80

dmesg:
atapci0: <AMD CS5536 UDMA100 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xe000-0xe00f at device 20.2 on
pci0 
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
ad0: 238475MB <WDC WD2500BEVS-00UST0 01.01A01> at ata0-master UDMA100


Regards.