Hi Reid, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 09:31:50PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > I have a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L motherboard with two Seagate ST3320620AS disks > attached to the build-in SATA controller, bound together usind mdadm RAID. > > If the BIOS option "SATA AHCI Mode" is set to "AHCI", then at least short > (haven't tried the others) self-tests get stuck, sitting at 90% remaining for > weeks. I think they complete eventually. > > If option is set to "Disabled", then short self-tests complete in a minute or > two, as the drive predicts. > > Interestingly, Seagate SeaTools (run off a bootable CDROM) does not see the > disks at all unless the setting is "Disabled". > > Please let me know what additional information I can provide. Sorry for the late reply. I don't have an idea what could be causing this problem but the output of "smartctl -a <disk>" (for both disks), lspci and "uname -a" will probably help to pin down the problem. Does the smartctl output differ in any way if you have ACHI turned on or off? Cheers, -- Guido
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