Juts Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Well, i have a hard drive that i pulled out of a maxtor enclosure, and its branded a seagate. Its SATA. Its mounts and works fine in windows, but causes ubuntu to hang on boot about 90% of the time. If i let it just hang, eventually errors come up and then i have to restart. The hard drive passed maxtors hard drive tests, both the short and the long one. I have tried zero filling it and reformatting it. My hardware is listed in my signature. Anyone have any ideas why ubuntu would dislike this drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Well, i have a hard drive that i pulled out of a maxtor enclosure, and its branded a seagate. Its SATA. Its mounts and works fine in windows, but causes ubuntu to hang on boot about 90% of the time. If i let it just hang, eventually errors come up and then i have to restart. The hard drive passed maxtors hard drive tests, both the short and the long one. I have tried zero filling it and reformatting it. My hardware is listed in my signature. Anyone have any ideas why ubuntu would dislike this drive? I had problems with a Seagate USB 2.0 250Gb drive where it would unmount itself under Ubuntu, but worked fine under Windows. I tried different formats and I'd get the same problem. Maybe Ubuntu doesn't support Seagate that well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 20, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 20, 2008 Seagate seems to have issues with supporting non-Windows OSes https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=605434 That thread has a posted fix for the USB problem (drive switches modes after waking up from standby). For the drive that doesn't seem to behave booting, if you can get a boot (or just boot the Ubuntu CD as a LiveCD) and do a sudo hdparm -iv /dev/sda (assuming it is sda that is the problem drive - change it to sdb or other appropriate ID for your box) it might help someone that knows a bit more about drive parameters in Linux than I do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juts Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 Thanks--I'll repost that info as soon as i can--working on booting into ubuntu now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juts Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 justin@justins:~$ sudo hdparm -iv /dev/sdc [sudo] password for justin: /dev/sdc: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 60801/255/63, sectors = 976773168, start = 0 Model=ST3500630AS , FwRev=3.AFM , SerialNo= 6QG14LEV Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=16384kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16? CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7 * signifies the current active mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juts Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 Bump, anyone have any ideas? The seagate drive came out of a Maxtor oneTouch 4 500gb enclosure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Seagate seems to have issues with supporting non-Windows OSeshttps://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=605434 That thread has a posted fix for the USB problem (drive switches modes after waking up from standby). Thanks. Do have to do this every time or can you add it to the .conf file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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