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

[Tom Cubie]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Elena ``of Valhalla''
<elena.valhalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
Aha, so it's a hardware problem : )
>
> 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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