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Clean your physical connectors!

Have some new old stock SATA drives vomiting at you?

[  234.811385] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
[  234.811392] ata1: hard resetting link
[  240.139340] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[  244.855349] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
[  244.855375] ata1: hard resetting link
[  250.199443] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[  254.875508] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
[  254.875533] ata1: hard resetting link
[  260.211562] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[  289.919779] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
[  289.919810] ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 3.0 Gbps
[  289.919816] ata1: hard resetting link
[  294.963876] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
[  294.963904] ata1: reset failed, giving up
[  294.963909] ata1.00: disable device

Grab your contact cleaner and clean their SATA connectors!

I just bought a new 1TB Crucial MX500 made in god knows what year and installed it in a virgin SATA port of a M710q made in 2016 and I got the vomit you see above every time I loaded the drive. Reseated all the connectors. More vomit. Scratched my head a couple of times reaching for the trash bin and I had a brainwave that there might be oxidation from sitting naked with the elements. Took out the DeoxIt Gold, dabbed all the connectors on the SATA path, cycled them a few times, powered on and loaded the drive. No more vomit.

evan_drince ,

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GBU_28 ,

Uh they're played in gold and the geek squad guy specifically said they never need washing

swab148 ,
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reset failed, giving up

Mood.

TheHolm ,
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Usually just plug/unplug couple of times is enough. No fancy chemicals.

raldone01 , (edited )

SATA minimum rated connection cycles is 50. 😂

incogtino ,

It tells you right there in the log: "DRDY"

avidamoeba OP ,
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🥇

CaptainBlagbird ,
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😏

johntash ,

Dumb question but what do you mean you cycled them a few times?

avidamoeba OP ,
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Plugged/unplugged.

SecretSauces ,
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Well there's your problem. You've got to plug it back in!

catloaf ,

Unplugged and plugged back in.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Nice. I would not have thought to clean the connectors.

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