Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [sata]

Serial ATA (SATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. Serial ATA was designed to replace the older ATA (AT Attachment) standard (also known as EIDE), offering many advantages over the older parallel ATA (PATA) interface.

409 questions
14
votes
1 answer

Faulty SATA disk but with a periodic error?

I have a Seagate St2000dm001 2TB Barracuda Sata3 disk that is producing errors similar to this : [Tue Jun 14 10:02:06 2022] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [Tue Jun 14 10:02:06 2022] ata2.00: failed command: WRITE…
Nicholas Glykos
  • 143
2
votes
1 answer

Hard resetting link, limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps

Lenovo G500 laptop, Debian Jessie 8.7 Here is my dmesg output: [22957.061286] ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen [22957.061294] ata3: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed [22957.061297] ata3: SError: {…
cottonjoe
  • 21
2
votes
1 answer

Is there any downside to having 4 SSDs in RAID 10 on the same SATA controller as a DVD drive?

Setting up a new server; the motherboard is a Supermicro X10SRW-F. It has two SATA controllers, one with 6 ports, one with 4. The one with 6 ports already has a DVD drive connected to it. I'm about to use 4 x 512GB SSD drives in a RAID 10 array, and…
ChrisA
  • 316
1
vote
2 answers

Recover ATA SSD After Secure Erase Without Setting Password

I have received an ATA SSD drive which was secure erased before being handed over. When it was secure erased (using the "Disk Eraser" tool on Parted Magic LiveCD), the default NULL password was entered into the GUI. However, no password was set…
Richard
  • 105
1
vote
3 answers

How do I know if I have a SATA compatible machine without opening the box?

How do I know if I have a SATA compatible machine without opening the box? Or is the only way to open up the box and look at the connectors?
Makach
  • 251
1
vote
2 answers

SATA hard resetting link

Here is my dmesg output: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata2.00: cmd 60/48:08:6f:13:3a/00:00:01:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 36864 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2.00: status: {…
user52475
  • 41
0
votes
2 answers

SATA Drive order for unknown Ubuntu Distro with multiple partitions

We have a server that was being decommissioned and it was thought that all the data and services had been migrated to new systems. Instructions to our tech was to remove drives and prepare the system for recycling. Just before this was done it was…
Tom
  • 1
-2
votes
2 answers

How to connect SCA-2 to SATA?

I have SCA-2 hard drive with connector like this: http://www.ivoryegg.com/imagesNew/150000/154608--659238-7378.jpg It's possible to connect it to motherboard with SATA? Thanks!
d30DK
  • 1