Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> >> My next step will be repeating everything with a different internal HD >> and share my results > > And? Did you try changing it? > Yes, with no success initially, but today I'm making real progress!!! Yesterday, I tried with a Samsung SV4084H (a 40 GB disk). The result (or lack of it, I should say) was the same. Dmesg jumps from scsi2 : sata_via to NFTL driver: nftlcore.c $Revision: 1.98 $, nftlmount.c $Revision: 1.41 $ Today I tried with no drive attached: scsi2 : sata_via ATA: abnormal status 0x8 on port 0x1447 NFTL driver: nftlcore.c $Revision: 1.98 $, nftlmount.c $Revision: 1.41 $ The 40GB samsung came configured for cable select. Let's try with the samsung forcing to master: ATA: abnormal status 0x80 on port 0x1447 And now, what happens if I try slave? Woooow!!! scsi2 : sata_via ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x1447 ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x1447 ata3.01: ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 79730784 sectors: LBA ata3.01: configured for UDMA/33 scsi 2:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG SV4084H PM10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sda: 79730784 512-byte hdwr sectors (40822 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA SCSI device sda: 79730784 512-byte hdwr sectors (40822 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sd 2:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sda Original drive to slave should fo the trick? Bad news, it doesn't ATA: abnormal status 0x80 on port 0x1447 I'll keep on trying and share my findings Juan |