> ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA > ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in > res 51/84:4f:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) > ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } > ata1: soft resetting link > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 > ata1: EH complete > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
I think you have driver issues. Might also be the cabling, but I doubt it as faulty SATA cables are in my experience quite rare. WD drives are known not to get along too well with VIA SATA1 controllers: http://www.viaarena.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38871 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-794855.html What kernel version are you using? What does the kernel say when it first detects the disk? Do you get the same errors under a recent kernel (try the latest gentoo install cd) ? My experience with WD "advanced format" drives has been positive so far, especially considering how cheap they are... The only gripe I have is that they report not only having a 512B *logical* sector size in the response to ATA INFO commands (which is fine, as they have a translation layer), but also a 512B *physical* sector size, which is wrong and causes partitioning tools to use the wrong alignment. All the five 1TB drives I have behave this way, and from what I read this is not an isolated behavior... andrea