Internal SATA drive ejecting upon sleeping/waking

[Project 2501]

I have been using an old 250gb PATA drive for time machine, using a SATA-PATA bridge to connect to the GSATA port on the MB. Whenever my machine sleeps, it ejects the drive upon waking and gives this error dialogue:

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I can't remount the drive with Disk Utility; I need to reboot the computer to see the drive again.

I assumed that this was a quirk of the bridge I was using, but I recently got a 2 TB SATA drive to replace it. It is doing the same thing. I guess the easiest thing to do is the use the blue ports that are controlled by the Intel chipset, but I rather avoid that because it will take more work to easily access those ports.

My Kernel Log:

Sep 21 00:22:32 himari kernel[0]: System Sleep
Sep 21 00:22:40 himari kernel[0]: Wake reason = 
Sep 21 00:22:40 himari kernel[0]: System Wake
Sep 21 00:22:40 himari kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 0
Sep 21 00:22:45 himari kernel[0]: disk2s4: media is not present.
Sep 21 00:22:47: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Sep 21 00:22:45 himari kernel[0]: disk2s3: media is not present.
Sep 21 00:22:45 himari kernel[0]: 0/Store-V1/Stores/5A3690AA-C1D3-42EB-92B1-43D7577CC7A9/indexState] [FSLogMsgID 494022684] [FSLogMsgOrder Last] 
Sep 21 00:22:45 himari kernel[0]: disk2s3: media is not present.
Sep 21 00:22:47: --- last message repeated 4 times ---
Sep 21 00:22:45 himari kernel[0]: disk2s2: media is not present.
Sep 21 00:22:47: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Sep 21 00:22:45 himari kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: do_jnl_io: strategy err 0x6
Sep 21 00:22:45 himari kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 40960 bytes to the journal!
Sep 21 00:22:45 himari kernel[0]: disk2s2: media is not present.
Sep 21 00:22:47: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Sep 21 00:22:47 Himari kernel[0]: disk2s3: media is not present.
Sep 21 00:22:47: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Sep 21 00:22:47 Himari kernel[0]: disk2s4: media is not present.
Sep 21 00:22:47 Himari kernel[0]: hfs: err 6 reading VH blk          0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode /dev/disk2s4] [MountPt /Volumes/WD20-750B] [FSLogMsgID 819617621] [FSLogMsgOrder Last] 
Sep 21 00:22:47 Himari kernel[0]: (WD20-750a)
Sep 21 00:22:47 Himari kernel[0]: disk2s4: media is not present.
Sep 21 00:22:47: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Sep 21 00:22:47 Himari kernel[0]: msdosfs_fat_uninit_vol: error 6 from msdosfs_fat_cache_flush
Sep 21 00:22:50 himari kernel[0]: Failed to issue COM RESET successfully after 3 attempts. Failing...

My /Extra/Extenions folder contains these:

• fakesmc.kext[/*:m:8w1u2l06]
• JMicron36xSATA.kext[/*:m:8w1u2l06]
• Legacy889aHDA.kext[/*:m:8w1u2l06]

Any ideas on how to solve this?

 

[Lnx2Mac]

My /Extra/Extenions folder contains these:

• fakesmc.kext[/*:m:4ea8rab6]
• JMicron36xSATA.kext[/*:m:4ea8rab6]
• Legacy889aHDA.kext[/*:m:4ea8rab6]

Any ideas on how to solve this?

You might want to try with the JMicron eSATA.kext instead of SATA...

 

[Project 2501]

I replaced the JMicron36xSATA.kext with the JMicron36xeSATA.kext.

The disk still ejects and I can't remount it with Disk Utility. Perhaps there is a problem with my BIOS settings?

 

[giles]

I have the same problem with my internal Windows 7 IDE drive. I am using the JMicron36xATA kext in extra/extensions. Any suggestions?

 

[Project 2501]

The funny thing is that I got the PATA-SATA bridge because I could never get the JMicron36xATA.kext driver to detect the PATA drive plugged into the IDE port.

Another possibility: I am using the extensions that originally came with Multibeast 1.x. Are the ones included with v2.2.2 more recent?