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Serial ATA, a computer bus technology for connecting hard disks, optical drives and other storage devices

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Multiple phantom Hard Drives

I've got a weird problem with 20.04 server. The system had a drive failure and I had to rebuild it. Everything went fine during the install, but when I run lsblk, I show sda - sdf. There are only 2 ...
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Hard Disk Identification of SATA Hard Disk (generic), SSD

I need to secure erase the following drive types: SSD Disk >>> hdparm <<< If there is a better tool /approach, please let me know. Hard Disk >>> shred /scrub /nwipe Is it ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS does not load Internal SATA DVD

I'm running a 64-bit Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS running GNOME 42.9. I have a SATA Hard drive which loads correctly, I also have a SATA DVD Drive but it does not load at all. I have swapped SATA slots and ...
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Cannot select destination HD during 22.04 installation

Nubee here - have been trying to install U Server 22.04 on an HP t620 Thin Client with 8GB RAM and 1TB SATA HD. Proceeds fine until this screen:enter image description here I can see the 1TB drive ...
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eSATA ST500VT000 HD didn't working in Ubuntu 22.04, but it is OK using Ubunru 16.04

It was possible use eSAT HD using Ubuntu 16.04, and I received those messages: [65413.223368] ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4040000 action 0xe frozen [65413.223376] ata5: irq_stat ...
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Which hard disk is causing these ATA errors?

in my journalctl -xb I see this: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0x6000 SErr 0x4890800 action 0xe frozen ata1.00: irq_stat 0x0c400040, interface fatal error, connection status changed ata1: SError: ...
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How to enable 6Gbps for SATA3?

Though it supports SATA Rev 3.0, still there is no Gen3 listed here? Tried to set the speed using "libata.force=6.0Gbps", but getting error like "ata: failed to parse force parameter &...
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Suddenly Ubuntu only sees 4 of 5 hard disks. Anything to do/try?

Recently Ubuntu stopped mounting (or even seeing) one of my hard disks. I assumed the disk had failed so I replaced it only to find it's not actually the disk itself. It seems to be something to do ...
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Crash during secure erase in Disks utility and can no longer access drive

I started a secure erase operation in Ubuntu using the disk utility (example below) and the machine locked up, I rebooted it, and now can no longer access the disk. Upon booting, the BIOS asks for the ...
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PC running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop not mounting a SATA DVD/RW drive connected via USB

I have a new mini PC running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop and wish to connect a SATA DVD/RW drive as an external device from my former PC where it was installed in one of the 5 1/2 in bays. I am using a ...
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Dell Latitude 3199 No OS, No Bootable Device, No Primarily Hard Drive, No SATA options or Boot Sequence options

How can I install Ubuntu from USB if there are no boot sequence options, the primary hard drive is set to None. The SATA is set to none. There’s no OS installed currently.
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sdb Attached SCSI disk. But I can't find it anywhere

I'm trying to attach external HDD with a new cable I bought on Amazon, JSAUX USB 3.0 to SATA Adapter. syslog says it was attached as sdb, but I don't see it anywhere. kernel: [ 2839.039779] sd 2:0:0:0:...
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BIOS not saving SATA RST -> AHCI mode change (but saving other changes properly)

Title. Trying to dual-boot windows & linux on the same laptop. Found that linux installer can't see hard drives while SATA is in RST mode, so I tried to change it to AHCI - BIOS just does not save ...
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Ubuntu Server 22.04 can only see one IronWolf 4TB drive, after installing a second

My 6 disk ZFS array had a drive go out the other day. It was built on all HGST 2TB DeskStar HDDs. I decided I would slowly double the size of the all drives after replacing the first one, and ...
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Ubuntu live USB stick cannot detect SATA SSD disk even when AHCI enabled and RAID off

Problem Summary: During an Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) dual-boot installation from a live USB stick, the Ubuntu setup installer cannot detect my SATA SSD disk, even though the BIOS does ...
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New install of ubuntu server, SSD IOPS are very slow

I just installed ubuntu-server 22.04.1 on a Samsung 870 QVO 2TB. Testing with fio I am getting very slow IOPS, but am only getting r=3100, w=1200 IOPS. Which seems much lower than I should be getting. ...
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How to properly remove an extra disk from VirtualBox?

I have this vm with Xubuntu and I've added 4 extra disks (practising for a course I'm taking). How do I remove them? Just by selecting and removing? will this break anything? thanks!
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22.04 upgrade on macbook hard disk disappeared

I upgraded my working Ubuntu 21.10 to 22.04 (on my MacBookAir6,1), and upon rebooting the default kernel 5.15.0-25 ran for a few seconds, gave a bunch of DMAR faults, "gave up waiting for root ...
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Hard drive not visible while dual booting Xubuntu on a Pentium 5 Windows 7 machine

Using a Pentium 5 Windows 7 machine. Further details are as follows: Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E220 @ 2.20GHz 2.20GHz Installed Memory (RAM): 2GB System type: 32-bit Operating System ...
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How to format a locked SATA hard drive

so I have this TOSHIBA MQ01ABF050 (AMFQ6E) hard drive which I was using to dual Ubuntu and Windows, until a day I on my laptop and it started asking for a HDD password which I have not even put there ...
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Pass through SATA drive to VirtualBox VM

I have a SanDisk 1TB SSD SATA drive. There are firmware updates available via SanDisk SSD Dashboard. The dashboard is only available on Windows. I have a Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox. I want to know if ...
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failing ASMedia ASM1153 on USB 3.0

I have a problem accessing an external drive connected with ASMedia ASM1153 USB 3.0 3 Gb/s to SATA adapter (bridge) on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS. The external drive is not stable when connected to an USB3 ...
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Can't change SATA mode to AHCI in Acer dual boot Ubuntu with windows

I ran into some trouble in my Acer laptop which is Ubuntu dual boot with windows. For that I needed to change Sata mode to AHCI from RST OPAN but SATA mode in BIOS Information menu had become ...
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ata5: COMRESET failed (errno=-32) old iMac broken disk

I have a 5,1 iMac with a broken internal disk. After many attempts I got a working installation of Ubuntu 20.04.03 on an external USB drive. The boot is very long due to a repeated message: COMRESET ...
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Installing PCIe SATA card conflicts with onboard NIC

I recently installed a fresh 21.04 server onto new hardware. Everything worked great. Today, I tried to add an ASM1166 based PCIe SATA controller. When I boot with the card in, it causes issues with ...
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USB/SATA cable simply does not work on Ubuntu

I couldn't find an answer to my problem because all other similar questions have Ubuntu properly recognize the external HDD as a storage medium and assign it to /dev/sdb. If only it were this easy. It ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 JMicron PCI-E Sata

Recently I bought PCI-E card with 5 sata port with chipset JMB585. It does not get detected by the system. When I do lspci I get the same output as when the card is not plugged in. 00:00.0 Host bridge:...
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Is it fine to keep changing from AHCI to RAID constantly?

So, I had windows 10 for a while now and I decided to install Ubuntu in dual boot, however as you may know I need to switch to AHCI to use Ubuntu, I know that you could setup Windows to use AHCI, ...
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Drives partitioned via server USB caddy not recognized by workstation eSATA (GPT PMBR size mismatch)

We use a USB 3.0 drive caddy (Sabrent EC-DFFN) connected to our Ubuntu 20.04 server for backups. And we are using several make/model 6TB spin drives in daily rotation (one drive per day). Each drive ...
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HP Z420/620/820 SAS controller support

The HP Z420/620/820 series workstations have the Intel C602 chipset. They are coming up on ten years old, but E5-26xx v2 Xeons are still plenty of power and they use DDR3 dram, which is getting really ...
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Why is my SSD device recognized as an HDD?

I have Linux server running Ubuntu 18.04.5 with kernel version Linux myserver 5.4.0-66-generic #74~18.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 5 11:17:31 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux'. And I have SSD device ...
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Is there a way to check for sure what version of SATA on my laptop?

I'm using a 8 years old laptop, lenovo G480.. according to the spec on the internet, it has SATA 300 interface, which should be SATA 2 or SATA 3 gb/s However when I check in terminal with sudo dmesg |...
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Change in SATA Configuration

I have a dual boot system with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. So due to slow performance of Windows I changed my bios SATA Configuration from IDE to AHCI and I observed that my laptop boots quickly in ...
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partition table created with HDD connected via SATA-USB interface not recognized if the HDD is placed in laptop hard drive bay

I created a dos/mbr partition table and some partitions using gparted, on a hard drive I connected to my laptop via a SATA-USB interface. I then placed the hard drive in my system hard drive bay and ...
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How can I get a listing of all storage ports available?

I have a laptop (Asus X421IA) and im trying to figure out what kind of storage expansion possibilities I have. Asus's lineup being a mess, I couldn't find the manual info for my exact model on their ...
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Computer powers back on after shutting down

I'm running Ubuntu 20.10 now, this issue existed on 20.04 as well, but when I send the shutdown command through any means my computer turns back on after about a 1 second similar to a reboot. I tested ...
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ataX: softreset failed

My system is Ubuntu Mate 20.04 LTS. I have a problem with: [ 2.037058] ata2: softreset failed (device not ready) [ 2.037080] ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) [ 2.225055] ata3: ...
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Hard disk not detected during Dual boot installation on New Acer Aspire A315-56 laptop

I purchased a new Acer Aspire A315-56 laptop few days ago with Windows 10 preinstalled in that. Now I wanted to dual boot with Ubuntu 20.04 version. I created the necessary USB bootable drive using ...
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Problem in booting Ubuntu

I have been having problem in booting(loading) Ubuntu 18.04. The last time I had problem with Ubuntu was mmx64.efi file was missing, I found the solution and added efi file manually to load under ...
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Shutdown msg: ata failed stop fis rx (-16)

I am dual booting ubuntu 20.04/w10 on separate NVme.m2 on an asrock x570 and i have an ssd connected too as a storage drive. When i shutdown/restart my system, the following msg flashes for a sec: [32....
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Ubuntu 16.04 not detecting SATA drives on Integrated SAS Controller

Problem Statement : I have connected 4 SATA drives to an internal SAS connector on my motherboard. They appear fine in the BIOS but Ubuntu doesn't seem to be able to detect them. I don't get anything ...
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Check if my ssd is SATA or M2

I have a PC with two ssd slots, SATA3 and M2, and I'm using Ubuntu 19.04. Right now I have only one ssd, and I would like to bought a second one. I don't know if actually there is a SATA or a M2 hard ...
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Ubuntu installation problem with Intel Rapid Storage Technology

I apologize immediately for my English After buying a new notebook, Acer aspire A514-52-59EQ, with pre-installed Windows 10 home I wanted to go back to my dear old Ubuntu, in the new version 20.04LTS,...
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How to fix the sound of the hard drive needle when turning off the system

I have recently replaced the main HDD of my ASUS a53s laptop with an SSD. I have placed the HDD hard drive in the SATA port where the DVD drive was located. I have not had any problems and the speed ...
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How to set the 6TB external hard drive Ubuntu 18.04.4

I was trying to add a 6TB WD Red Hard Drive as external storage, but my Ubuntu (18.04.4) could not detect this drive when I plugged it in. I have some confusion about the hardware, so that I used ...
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Does disabling NCQ cause any bad effects on the computer?

A few months ago, I started seeing these errors on my computer: [39441.061910] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [39441.061917] ata3.01: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0xe ...
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Hard drive not visible to Ubuntu installer

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 19.10 onto an Acer Aspire 3 laptop. I've made the bootable USB, booted from it and managed to get into the live environment. Everything works fine. I can the run the ...
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ata1: failed to read log page 10h (errno=-5). Is it a hardrive failure? If yes is it repairable( physical or using software)?

So,i was trying to copy a huge load of data of my external hdd to my laptop's internal hdd using debian based distro. Suddenly my screen went all black. I waited for some time, pressed random keys(esc,...
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sata hdd recognizing problem

Here is the simple lshw result efirlus@Efirlus-NAS:~$ sudo lshw -c storage -c disk *-storage description: SATA controller product: Intel Corporation vendor: Intel Corporation ...
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How to recognize SSD drive with Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller in 'RAID mode'

I have a Dell Latitude 5300 with a SSD drive and with what lshw shows as ''82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode]''. BIOS is configured by default with SATA operation = "RAID On" mode and I don't ...
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