[SOLVED] Can't see HD after SATA III controller installation

[powerhouse]

Today I installed a Transcend SATA3 (6Gb/s) + USB-3 combo PCIe card and hooked up a SATAII drive to it (WD5000AAK). USB works just fine. Also, lspci shows the SATA controller of the card, an ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 SATA controller.

The problem is, I can't find the damn drive - it doesn't show up anywhere: fdisk -l, gparted, df, you name it. It's like it's not there.

I'm running Linux Mint 13 Maya 64bit with Xen hypervisor 4.1.

Now, when I boot LM14 from a USB stick all drives - including the WD5000AAK mentioned above - are visible and I can mount the drive and all is fine (just copied the whole drive content to another drive).

I want to use that drive and the SATA PCIe controller card is of no use to me if I can't get it working.

Any ideas? Perhaps a missing driver (kernel module)?

The SATA controller chip is an ASM1062 (ASMedia). I have another one on board that I have passed through to the Windows VM, so that is not in use by Linux. There is also a PCI bridge on the card (PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8603), could that be a culprit too?

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lspci -vvv
...
0c:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 84b7
   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
   Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
   Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
   Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 384
   Region 0: I/O ports at b050 [size=8]
   Region 1: I/O ports at b040 [size=4]
   Region 2: I/O ports at b030 [size=8]
   Region 3: I/O ports at b020 [size=4]
   Region 4: I/O ports at b000 [size=32]
   Region 5: Memory at fa400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
   Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
      Address: fee007d8  Data: 0000
   Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
      Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
      Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
   Capabilities: [80] Express (v2) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
      DevCap:   MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <1us, L1 <8us
         ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
      DevCtl:   Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
         RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
         MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
      DevSta:   CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
      LnkCap:   Port #1, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM unknown, Latency L0 <512ns, L1 <2us
         ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
      LnkCtl:   ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
         ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
      LnkSta:   Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
      DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range ABC, TimeoutDis+
      DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-
      LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB
          Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
          Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
      LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB
   Capabilities: [100 v1] Virtual Channel
      Caps:   LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
      Arb:   Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
      Ctrl:   ArbSelect=Fixed
      Status:   InProgress-
      VC0:   Caps:   PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
         Arb:   Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
         Ctrl:   Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=01
         Status:   NegoPending- InProgress-
   Kernel driver in use: ahci
...


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lshw -class storage -class disk
  *-storage               
       description: SATA controller
       product: ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller
       vendor: ASMedia Technology Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: storage msi pm pciexpress ahci_1.0 cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=pciback latency=0
       resources: irq:17 ioport:c050(size=8) ioport:c040(size=4) ioport:c030(size=8) ioport:c020(size=4) ioport:c000(size=32) memory:fa210000-fa2101ff memory:fa200000-fa20ffff
  *-storage
       description: SATA controller
       product: ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller
       vendor: ASMedia Technology Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: storage msi pm pciexpress ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
       resources: irq:384 ioport:b050(size=8) ioport:b040(size=4) ioport:b030(size=8) ioport:b020(size=4) ioport:b000(size=32) memory:fa400000-fa4001ff
  *-storage
       description: SATA controller
       product: X79 series chipset 6-Port SATA AHCI Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1f.2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
       logical name: scsi0
       logical name: scsi1
       logical name: scsi2
       logical name: scsi3
       logical name: scsi4
       logical name: scsi5
       version: 05
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: storage msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list emulated
       configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
       resources: irq:382 ioport:f090(size=8) ioport:f080(size=4) ioport:f070(size=8) ioport:f060(size=4) ioport:f020(size=32) memory:fa945000-fa9457ff
     *-disk:0
          description: ATA Disk
          product: SanDisk SDSSDX12
          physical id: 0
          bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
          logical name: /dev/sda
          version: R201
          serial: 120541400048
          size: 111GiB (120GB)
          capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
          configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=00045b4c
     *-disk:1
          description: ATA Disk
          product: WDC WD20EARX-00P
          vendor: Western Digital
          physical id: 1
          bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
          logical name: /dev/sdb
          version: 51.0
          serial: WD-WMAZA7652495
          size: 1863GiB (2TB)
          capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
          configuration: ansiversion=5 guid=8653b3b6-ead9-46f9-ad33-5db4b7dca052
     *-disk:2
          description: ATA Disk
          product: WDC WD20EARX-00P
          vendor: Western Digital
          physical id: 2
          bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
          logical name: /dev/sdc
          version: 51.0
          serial: WD-WMAZA9049582
          size: 1863GiB (2TB)
          capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
          configuration: ansiversion=5 guid=2fa8ff6b-e799-47d9-832b-efed2e81c437
     *-disk:3
          description: ATA Disk
          product: WDC WD20EARS-00M
          vendor: Western Digital
          physical id: 3
          bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
          logical name: /dev/sdd
          version: 51.0
          serial: WD-WCAZA0368760
          size: 1863GiB (2TB)
          capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
          configuration: ansiversion=5 guid=5adfb6c9-43db-4fec-9eb8-2bea93cd9f90
     *-disk:4
          description: ATA Disk
          product: WDC WD1001FALS-0
          vendor: Western Digital
          physical id: 4
          bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
          logical name: /dev/sde
          version: 05.0
          serial: WD-WMATV1475532
          size: 931GiB (1TB)
          capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
          configuration: ansiversion=5 guid=d10d627d-9e11-4d0b-b6c2-3e1fb5ae1edd
     *-cdrom
          description: DVD-RAM writer
          product: DVDRAM GH22NS70
          vendor: HL-DT-ST
          physical id: 5
          bus info: scsi@5:0.0.0
          logical name: /dev/cdrom
          logical name: /dev/cdrw
          logical name: /dev/dvd
          logical name: /dev/dvdrw
          logical name: /dev/sr0
          version: EX00
          capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
          configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc


[powerhouse]

I found a workaround. As mentioned in my first post, I already have one ASMedia AMS1062 SATA controller onboard which I had passed through for use with Windows. See here:

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lshw -class storage -class disk
  *-storage               
       description: SATA controller
       product: ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller
       vendor: ASMedia Technology Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: storage msi pm pciexpress ahci_1.0 cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=pciback latency=0
       resources: irq:17 ioport:c050(size=8) ioport:c040(size=4) ioport:c030(size=8) ioport:c020(size=4) ioport:c000(size=32) memory:fa210000-fa2101ff memory:fa200000-fa20ffff

So far I'm not using this controller under Windows - it's an external eSATA port that I hoped to be using for external backup drives.

I then disabled the pci-passthrough of that SATA controller and voila - the Transcend ASM1062 SATA controller card and the connected HDD are now recognized.

If only the onboard Marvell SATA controller was any good, it would have saved me a lot of trouble and money.

Anyway, I consider this kind of solved. But if anyone has a good idea to get both the HDD on one ASM1062 and the other ASM1062 passed through to Windows (using pciback, or stub), that would be great.