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To diagnose what's wrong with a hard disk setup you can use smartctl. The last time i needed this was when i experienced hiccups/freezes in the os and these messages in syslog :

syslog
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Jan 24 00:01:28 hoek kernel: [ 3161.235608] ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
Jan 24 00:01:28 hoek kernel: [ 3161.235611] ata6.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Jan 24 00:01:28 hoek kernel: [ 3161.235619] ata6.00: cmd 61/08:38:d0:8c:95/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 7 ncq dma 4096 out
Jan 24 00:01:28 hoek kernel: [ 3161.235619]          res 40/00:30:10:89:95/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x50 (ATA bus error)
Jan 24 00:01:28 hoek kernel: [ 3161.235623] ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
Jan 24 00:01:28 hoek kernel: [ 3161.235626] ata6.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Jan 24 00:01:28 hoek kernel: [ 3161.235633] ata6.00: cmd 61/08:40:48:97:95/00:00:02:00:00/40 tag 8 ncq dma 4096 out
Jan 24 00:01:28 hoek kernel: [ 3161.235633]          res 40/00:30:10:89:95/00:00:02:00:00/40 Emask 0x50 (ATA bus error)

To diagnose this you can do smartctl first, but to find out which disk it is there is a script ~/bin/ata.sh that finds them for you :

ata.sh
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#!/bin/bash
OLDIFS="$IFS"

for i in /sys/block/sd*; do 
 readlink $i |
 sed 's^../devices^/sys/devices^ ;
      s^/host[0-9]{1,2}/target^ ^ ;
      s^/[0-9]{1,2}(:[0-9]){3}/block/^ ^' \
 \
  |
  while IFS=' ' read Path HostFull ID
  do
     # NEW lines: will now also work without a hitch on r/o environments
     IFS=: h=($HostFull)
     HostMain=${h[0]}; HostMid=${h[1]}; HostSub=${h[2]}

     if echo $Path | grep -q '/usb[0-9]*/'; then
       echo "(Device $ID is not an ATA device, but a USB device [e. g. a pen drive])"
     else
       echo $ID: ata$(< "$Path/host$HostMain/scsi_host/host$HostMain/unique_id").$HostMid$HostSub
     fi
  done
done

# restore original IFS
IFS="$OLDIFS"
output
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ata.sh
sda: ata2.00
sdb: ata2.01
sdc: ata6.00
(Device sdd is not an ATA device, but a USB device [e. g. a pen drive])
(Device sde is not an ATA device, but a USB device [e. g. a pen drive])

So ata6 is /dev/sdc which was the system disk in this case.

smartctl
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smartctl -a /dev/sdc
smartctl -x /dev/sdc
smartctl -h /dev/sdc

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

So the hard disk does not seem to be damaged. What you can do now is :

  • try another sata cable
  • switch disks on sata ports

The last one actually helped, which also means :

Sata port 6 on hoek is broken !!! don't use !A

I put a knotted sata cable in that slot in the hope i will understand later on ;)

servert ACPI error

Error

SMBus/IPMI/GenericSerialBus write requires Buffer of length 66, found length 32

This solution works : visit

In short :

modprobe
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modprobe -r acpi_power_meter
echo "blacklist acpi_power_meter" >> /etc/modprobe.d/hwmon.conf
echo "install acpi_power_meter /bin/false" >> /etc/modprobe.d/hwmon.conf

vi /etc/sensors3.conf
Go to the bottom of the file and add:

chip “power_meter-acpi-0”
ignore power1

Now reboot