10-03-2010, 04:50 AM
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I know nothing about a Windows image discs as i have never done one so this may be nonsense.
Could you install Windows on the HD with drivers ect, create an image using software (dont know what to recommended but iv'e seen them) then put the image on the SSD and try to boot up? Glad i went for a Corsair SSD almost bought an OCZ one, AHCI seems to work with them. |
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10-03-2010, 06:44 AM
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This link explains it in more detail (2nd workaround): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireTimeline/Fixes If it works, then you'll have to figure out how to disable NCQ in Windows. |
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10-03-2010, 01:37 PM
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10-03-2010, 03:33 PM
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Got a new ScreenShot up.
Couldn't figure out how to disable NCQ without already having grub installed. |
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10-03-2010, 09:04 PM
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I think it seems more like you have a faulty drive that an architectural problem with OCZ drives.
The paper referenced is a bit dated and I'm not sure it applies to current drives. I use a Vertex 120 GB (Indilinx Barefoot) drive in my laptop (AHCI)with no issues and great performance. Last edited by joemtnbike: 10-04-2010 at 12:04 AM. |
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10-03-2010, 11:22 PM
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...or there could be something else that is causing Win7 not to install |
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10-04-2010, 10:06 AM
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Drive has latest Firmware, 1.6, and I've already returned it for an identical drive at Micro Center. Chances of getting two bad drives that just don't install on my laptop?
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10-04-2010, 01:51 PM
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very high if the drives are from the same batch..
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10-04-2010, 03:56 PM
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You can also turn off NCQ later from the desktop. Start a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), type "sudo su" to get a root prompt, then type: echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth assuming sda is your SSD drive. You can experiment with other queue depths too (it's between 1 and 31). If you get "Permission error", then NCQ is not supported. If you still can't format the drive, output of "dmesg" and "smartctl -a /dev/sda" commands could be useful to determine the cause. |
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10-05-2010, 09:15 PM
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Still couldn't format after adding "libata.force=noncq" and running the queue_depth acommand as root returned "Permission Denied"
I imagine you're looking for some sort of system information from dmesg. Gathered what I thought was prudent. Quote:
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10-06-2010, 05:17 AM
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If the drive itself is failing there should be some information about the failure in SMART attributes and log. If the controller or communication with the drive is failing, there should be errors in the system log (like DMA errors, SATA link problems, IRQ problems). If there are no errors anywhere, it probably means the drive is returning wrong or stale data. |
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10-06-2010, 10:03 PM
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This is the rest of the output after what I already posted from the smartctl command.
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Last edited by 6inger|3read: 10-07-2010 at 12:40 AM. Reason: cleaned up diag output for aesthetics |
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10-09-2010, 10:06 AM
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http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge...76&view=markup ... and assuming your drive is based on Indilinx chipset, we can tell that the drive's life is probably 3 hours, it has 39 initial bad blocks (don't worry, this is normal), remaining life time is at 100%, there were many reads and writes but no read/write/erase failures, no SATA errors, in other words the drive thinks it is healthy and working fine. Maybe it is reading and writing correctly, but using wrong sectors? Why would it do that on one computer but not on another? I don't know any software that can test for misdirected reads and writes. Does the BIOS send some commands to the drive that seriously confuses it? It can be tested by connecting the drive after the computer booted. To trigger drive detection in Linux do: for i in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan; do echo '- - -' >$i; done Does the noisy, hot environment and poor power supply, as is often the case with laptops, makes the drive misbehave is such a peculiar way? Why doesn't it affect other drive functions? It can be tested by connecting the drive outside of the laptop using a SATA cable and external power supply. Anyway, hardware problems seem quite unlikely at this point. Are there no errors in "dmesg" log? You still haven't said that "no, there are no errors". Is the partition table sane, that is: no overlapping partitions, no partitions outside of available space? Can you post output of "fdisk -l -u /dev/sda" ? |
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04-30-2012, 02:27 AM
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So, 6inger|3read, have you solved your problem? I have exactly same problem with installing win7 to SSD-HDD in my acer aspire 5110, and can't find out how to do this correctly.
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04-30-2012, 05:08 AM
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Necropost alert.
This topic is 18 months old dude, i think you'll get a better response if you create a new topic |
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