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SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is one of the most common bus interfaces for connecting mass storage devices to a computer system.

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Why does disabling ATA fix "run_interrupt_driven_hooks still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config" in FreeBSD?

Why did it work? Why did the 5. step solve the problem? What is so special about disabling ATA which removed the run_interrupt_driven_hooks still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config error? My ...
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How do I make M.2 PCIe SSD drives non-removeable in Windows 10?

For the first time, I've built my own computer. I bought a M.2 SSD (specifically the ADATA XPG SX6000 M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3x2 SSD - 512GB) and slipped it into the Ultra M.2 slot on the back side of my ...
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Virtualbox host io cache applying scenarios

Virtualbox docs says that using host io cache for sata controller may be a risk of system performance. At the same time, on my case I see advantage of using host io cache - DisckCrystalMark reports ...
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What is the meaning of COMRESET failed?

Laptop's internal WD SATA HDD of 1 TB is not being detected from any OS. It does not have any physical damage. However while booting to linux from another disk, log is printed [ 6.397803] ata5: ...
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Trouble with new hard drive on old computer, and BIOS update

My motherboard is an Asus K8V-X. I was using a 250GB Maxtor SATA hard drive ever since I bought this computer, and the dreaded click of death finally showed up. So I bought a new 500GB Samsung SATA ...
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Internal SATA-HDD Doesn't Spin Up With Data Cable Connected

What's happening here is beyond me and what I keep finding on the internet is talks about the PSU, but I doubt that it is my issue here. Then again I'm not a hardware person and the things I read may ...
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Windows 7 sees internal hard drive as an external hard drive?

Running Windows 7 (x64) with four drives. After installing the Windows 7, all the drives were correctly seen as internal drives. But I changed the drive letters of three of them to avoid rescanning/...
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Trying to identify this cable name. Hard drive cable

Trying to identify this cable connector name. Specifically, the part that is circled. I know what the whole cable is called, but I am trying to buy some circuit board and I want to search "Circuit ...
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ZFS administration impossible when `zpool` commands hang

I am finding zfs to be poor at dealing with hardware faults, to the point it completely hangs and no utility can be used until the system is rebooted. Is zfs considered production level? I am working ...
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Identical SSDs on same port: Why is one SATA/600 and the other SATA/150?

Overview Over the course of a few months I purchased two of the same SSD from different stores (both 960GB SandDisk SSD PLUS, same firmware(Z33110RL) - just waited for them to be on sale) with the ...
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Plugging 3.5" SATA drives into SAS ports on Proliant G6 DL360 Server

So I've got an HP Proliant G6 Dl360 that I'm hoping to run Freenas on from a VM. Has plenty of RAM (32GB), Processing Power, etc. Problem is storage. I have 5 WD 4TB 3.5" Hard drives I could use but I ...
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Windows 10 - SATA Hard drive keeps disappearing

I have only recently upgraded my machine to Windows 10. This was a clean build with Windows 10 Pro, not an upgrade from 7 or 8. My C drive is a 500 GB SSD. My D drive is a brand new 3 TB standard ...
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SSD: real read speed is half the specified one. Any idea why?

A few days ago, I bought a Toshiba Q300 SSD drive. I partitioned it (aligning partitions to multiples of 2048 sectors) and installed Ubuntu Mate. According to this page, the "Sequencial Read" is up ...
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SSD causes UEFI to load very slow on reboot (~15 sec)

I've recently bought an ADATA Premier Pro SP900 128 GB M.2 . It works fine , it's fast , but I have one issue with it . When I start the laptop , UEFI loads fast in a second or so , goes to my ...
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Can a simple adapter connect a SATA device directly to the PCIe bus?

While looking for an easy and inexpensive way to add one more SATA connector in my computer I came across this PCI Express to SATA Adapter: It has no electronics on it, just PCB traces that connect ...
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Intel RST driver - magic performance boost (only) up till version 11.2.0?

what's the magic behind the massive write speed performance boost by intel RST drivers up till and including version 11.2.0? i have done some performance measurements of my application that is extreme ...
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Laptop died after using a SATA/IDE USB hard drive converter

So I think I have done something very bad, I have a HP laptop and wanted to recover some data from some old SATA and IDE drives. I Bought this http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00VR52ZZ0?psc=1&...
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BIOS hangs when SATA drive is attached, works with hotplug

The American Megatrends BIOS (latest version as of manufacturer) of a Shuttle XPC SH87R6 hangs at the very beginning (not even showing the CPU type) whenever a WD 3.0TB SATA harddisk is attached. It's ...
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How do I remove internal SATA disks from the "Safely Remove Hardware" menu?

I have installed Windows 7 (Ultimate) on a PC with an ASRock 960GM/U3S3 FX motherboard, which is an AMD AM3+ motherboard with an AMD 760G/SB710 chipset. Everything installed OK with the latest drivers ...
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Independence of SATA channels and ports

I'm working on setting up a simple RAID and am wondering about how independent my SATA ports really are. There are 4 ports on the motherboard, but lspci shows only two controllers 00:0e.0 IDE ...
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How can I tell if a 2TB drive is too much for my bios?

2TB drive, several years old Pentium 4 HP dc7100 machine with v 1.05 of the C786C1 BIOS. There is an 80GB SATA drive connected already, which is recognized, the 2TB drive comes up as 0 MB in the setup ...
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How does one troubleshoot Windows hanging copying large files from external HDDs?

When I copy large file (for example over 4GB) from external WD MyBook USB 3.0 HDD to internal SATA2 HDD all of Windows just freezes. Copying files of any size on internal HDD is fine. Today I copied ...
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SSD works in Bay 1, won't boot in Bay 2 (Dell Studio)

I have a Dell Studio 1735 laptop for which I just bought an SSD (Crucial M4 64GB) as an upgrade. The laptop has two HDD bays, each with a different connector. Bay 1 is the bay in which the stock HDD ...
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BIOS not detecting working SATA hard drive

Some time ago my power supply died. It's a long story from then till now, but the important bit is that I ended up with a new hard drive and a new power supply. I tested to see if my original hard ...
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SATA Card Blocks On-Board RAID Controller

I have a PCI-Express two-port SATA card (from SSU). It is model SU-SATA3-T2. I'm installing it in a Dell Optiplex 990. The Dell motherboard part number is 06D7TR. The card seems to work, but with one ...
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Cannot connect to Wi-Fi networks after additional SSD install

I installed a new SATA III SSD on my new laptop (GIGABYTE A5 K1 with the Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MH network adapter) and now it can't connect to any Wi-Fi network, even though it detects them. After ...
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Mini PC JK01: how to install a 2.5" inch HDD (disk)?

I got a "Mini PC" model: JK01. All literature (over the network) claims that it has a "2.5" inch SATA HDD bay". (For example: mini PC review) But when I open the "mini PC&...
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Is it possible to disable an M.2 SSD without physically unscrewing it?

I want to be able to "hide" the presence of my M.2 NVMe ssd. For example, it can be useful when experimenting with OS installation to experimental drive, and you want to be sure it wont ...
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How to set the Extended Power Condition (EPC) timers of a hard-drive

I have a Ultrastar DC HC550 SATA disk that supports different idle and standby states (idle_a, idle_b, idle_c etc). They are described in the product manual along with the timers listed in chapter 10....
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How did Windows Memory Diagnostic cause an SSD to suddenly become detected by both the BIOS and Windows 10

I have just bought a SATA Samsung EVO 870. After installation it was not visible to BIOS or Disk Management/Device Manager. I tried using the cables directly removed from a working drive, new cables - ...
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SSD no longer recognized after attempted Ubuntu installation

I have attempted to install a dual boot of Linux (and my existing windows 10), but since the last attempt, one of the hard drive has disappeared. The original setup was two drives, the first of which ...
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HDD connected without a SATA power connector

I was adding a second hard drive to my PC while I spotted that my other, 7 years in usage 3.5 hard drive (Seagate Barracuda 7200.12) was not connected to the PSU through the power connector, meaning ...
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Does the queued TRIM support in SATA 3.1 require support from the SATA controller, or just from the OS and the SSD?

I am contemplating expanding the storage on my home server with a SATA expansion card and wonder if the card has to support queued TRIM to use it or if it is just an OS+SSD thing. Hardware example My ...
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Western Digital WD Red 6TB disc click of death - Spindle motor

Unfortunately a 6TB disc just got the click of death. The motor seems to spin up fine and the read/write heads seems to move fine with the actuator. When opening I discovered something I have not seen ...
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Asmedia 106x SATA Controller preventing boot

Recently I bought a DeLOCK 89384 PCIe card with 10 SATA 6Gb/s ports. However, after installing it, I'd get the message below, preventing the OS to boot and after a few seconds I'd get a reboot and ...
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How to enable M.2 SSD storage on Asus TUF B360M-Plus Gaming?

I'm having an issue with my new SSD M.2 NVMe (1.3) device not showing up as a storage device. I entered the BIOS, but the M.2 device does not show up/it isn't selectable as a bootable drive. I can see ...
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Filesystem immediately stops working after hotswap disk inserted in secondary controller

I have a computer with one 250GiB SSD disk connected to first onboard SATA connector which holds one EFI partition and one root partition (ubuntu 19.04). The computer also has a second discrete SAS ...
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Solaris 11.3 can't import a pool

I had some reboots last days and guess it's something to do with the SAS controller. But maybe I'm wrong. Any idea why the zpool import and zdb -e [pool] aborted or crashed with core dumps? ...
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Unable to read contents on an Advanced Format disk when using some USB docking stations

I have Linux Mint 17.3 (based on Ubuntu 14.04) with 4.4.0 kernel. I own a Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARX hard drive with 1TB capacity. The label on this drive says it is an "Advanced Format" ...
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HDD not booting or (consistently) showing up in BIOS

I have an Asus X555DA laptop that hadn't been booting. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what caused this previous problem. In an attempt to fix it I tried to install Ubuntu. Although the ...
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Why does copying speed constantly drop while copying in Windows 7's Explorer?

I've been using Windows 7 for several years now, and always noticed that the copying speeds can be consistently relied on to drop throughout the task of copying files or folders. Today, I decided to ...
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Can I Use a Mains to USB charger cable to power a SATA cable?

I want to connect a 500GB hard drive to my Network storage via the USB on the back of my router... However, I only have one USB on my router and I have a USB to SATA cable which needs two, due to the ...
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Can I mark a hard drive as removable (storahci service)?

Basically, I need the opposite of last time: I have an internal SATA Port that is connected to a "dock" which allows removing the drive. I would like the drive to show up in the "Safely remove ...
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LSI HBA Enable Partial or Slumber Low Power Mode

I have a SATA disc connected to a LSI 9207-8i HBA which uses the LSI SAS2308 controller. I am trying to put this disc in slumber by enabling device initiated power management. Disk sends a PMREQ_P / ...
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PUIS - Power Up In Standby - correct useage for HDD windows 10

I am currently reconfiging a windows 10 pc. Some of the drives have jumpers for PUIS This would work great for me to keep power and heat down when not needed and to stop all the drives booting up at ...
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Failing hard drive or bad controller after hard shutdown

After nouveau freezing everything with dual monitor for the millionth time I had to cut power on my macbook pro (mid 2010, fedora 24, SAMSUNG HN-M500MBB hard drive). Wasn't doing anything IO heavy ...
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SATA hard drive partition not recognized after replacing to different external enclosure?

I have been using an ST2000DM001 hard drive with an old G3 Station SATA-USB 2.0 adapter (JMicron JMB509 controller), the HDD has one ext4 partition. After putting the HDD into a newer, SATA-USB 3.0 ...
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Testing if SATA DRDY errors are from the controller or the drive - without swapping drives

I have a six year old desktop system where the hard drive has recently started throwing these errors (running in Linux - Debian Jessie): [12222.788128] ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [12222.788129] ...
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Silicon Image 3114 SATA PCI card modifies boot order and prevents from booting from CD

I have an old spare machine (P4 2,8 GHz, 2 GiB RAM) which I'd like to reuse as a small home media/archive server with a few SATA disks. I do have an Asus P4PE with BIOS version 1007 and obtained a ...
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SSD appears to become disconnected from computer randomly each day

The SSD is a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB drive. I've been dealing with an issue for at least the past month where around once a day my computer will completely freeze. The first go around, I was pretty ...
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