Gigabyte Motherboard 970A-Ds3P Install In On
4,147x.I have a Gigabyte 970A-DS3P motherboard with amd fx 8350 - not the latest hardware but still powerful enough. FX-6300 AMD 90 Bench 61, 256,546 samples. FX-8350 AMD 130 Bench 67, 323,051 samples. 2.1).Supports AMD AM3+ FX / AM3 Phenom II, Athlon II series processors GIGABYTE On/Off Charge for USB devices 4 USB 3.0 ports with GIGABYTE 3X USB power GIGABYTE Digital Power Engine 6 SATA3 ports with RAID support GbE LAN with high ESD Protection GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 4 Classic Technology GIGABYTE UEFI DualBIOS 2-way CrossFire Support VIA 2021 with High Quality 108dB Compatible Components (from 14,938 PCs) Popular components in PC builds with the Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P Motherboard. Here's where you can download the newest software for your GA-970A-DS3P FX (rev. Recently I have decided to switch to manjaro and after trying it on my laptop for a month I have decided to install in on my desktop, too.Downloads 45 Drivers, Manual and BIOS for Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX (rev.
Testdisk found lost partitions but could not recover them. Suspecting further problems I immediately disconnected disk 3 and then tried to recover disks 1 and 2. From that point my HDDs 1 and 2 were gone - gnome disks showed them as 'unknown' partitions.
After the first reboot all HDDs were gone - this time deleting partition table on disk 3 also. I restored the data, then tried to reinstall manjaro and the same thing happened again. I then started gparted distro on another computer and could restore partition tables there.I reinstalled linux mint on my desktop and tested disks and everything went smoothly. Gnome disks, Gparted, fdisk and gdisk complained that the partition table was missing but could not write one. From there I could recover my files and copy them elsewhere but when I returned disks to my computer I could not create new partitions.
Your third link is the one that I've sent in my first post, so I was aware of that problem - I wouldn't be able to install linux mint on my computer without that solution. If the "iommu=soft" switch is immediately added to kernel everything would work.I do not know if this is a newer kernel bug or is something manjaro specific but I think that those with AMD FX cpus and this motherboard need to be warned.But you found it a good enough strawman to ignore my other suggestionsNo, I didn't ignore them, I think you didn't read my problem carefully because your links are for a different problem. None of the partitioning tools that I've tried (gparted, gnome disks, fdisk, gdisk, testdisk) could create partition table on those disks afterwards and I was able to create partitions only from gparted distro with "iommu=soft" switch sent to kernel. First boot after install seems to work but after the first reboot the disks would lose their partition tables. If that switch was not set I wouldn't have usb3 support and that was it.However, in latest manjaro (18.1) failing to send that switch to kernel will lead to partition table deletion in all HDDs. My motherboard seems to not play nicely with linux but so far the only problem has been usb3 not working and slower startup times which could be prevented by sending "iommu=soft" switch to kernel.
That's why I posted it here.Let me chirp in here 1st iommu=soft does not solve any problems that was the 1st work around and dirty.Iommu=pt is the latest workround i posted the link I would follow that 1st before doing any thing.The one thing you are correct on is it should not happen,You can't compare Mint with Manjaro, Mint is a secure boot complaint distro, Manjaro is not and needs secure boot turned off and fast boot turned of.Is this machine duel booting if it is then it could be windows hibernation.Note on this I had problems on another machine that if I used gparted to format partitions when I booted MAC or Windows the partition tables disappeared some what like you describe, but only when booting non Linux, not saying this is related to your problem, I solved it by using a win live ISO to partition. And yes, I know that iommu=soft switch solves the usb problem, and that is should be there but I'm pretty sure that lack of that switch shouldn't result in data being lost on hard disks. And as I've said, I have reinstalled it a few times after that and the problem was always there, 100% reproducible. This never happened to me before, and I'm linux user for more that 20 years. And suddenly on reboot it erased partition tables on HDDs.
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