[Arm-netbook] SATA link down on Mele a1000 (easily solved)

Elena ``of Valhalla'' elena.valhalla at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 21:01:22 BST 2012


We've just had the issue when a sata hard disk isn't recognised and 
there is a line starting with::

   ata1: SATA link down 

in dmesg. In this case however the same thing happened both with 
debian and the stock android image, so we opened the case and 
indeed the sata connector was misplaced (we suspect it moved 
while shipping).

Since by googling I've seen that disk errors are not unheard, 
I believe that it is worth mentioning this easily checked 
and easily solved possibility.

-- 
Elena ``of Valhalla''



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