From: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: LCID Fire <lcid-fire@gmx.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Link to sata drives fail randomly
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:08:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c0942db0904241508y7b8cf90bw71b9e25e71e3f34@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F22D49.6000806@garzik.org>
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> LCID Fire wrote:
>>
>> First of - I have a Asus P5K WS where I'm running (or actually trying) a
>> raid10 based on 4 sata drives. All drives are connected to esata slot panels
>> which connect to the mainboard ports.
>> The problem I'm encountering is the links to random drives fail every week
>> or so.
>> The strange thing is - the link is often failing for 2 drives at a time -
>> which is the best when running a raid10 *sarcasm*
>> The drives are WD, Samsung and Hitachi - so I think some specific driver
>> failure can be ruled out.
>> I attached the dmesg - perhaps someone could tell me which component is
>> responsible for my drives losing their link.
>
> Looks like a flaky cable, or bad connector.
Or a marginal power supply that can't handle 4 hard drives, a dvd
drive, and whatever else is attached to that system.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 19:19 LCID Fire
2009-04-24 21:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-24 22:08 ` Ray Lee [this message]
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