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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: LCID Fire <lcid-fire@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Link to sata drives fail randomly
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:21:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F22D49.6000806@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F210C2.8050703@gmx.net>

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.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-24 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-24 19:19 Link to sata drives fail randomly LCID Fire
2009-04-24 21:21 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-04-24 22:08   ` Ray Lee

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