From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Paprocki <andrew@ishiboo.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hitachi 7K1000 1tb drives and sata_sil 3114 chipset
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:34:52 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A41D1C.9090209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76366b180801310013k48a8929ei2eb939b1cf449acb@mail.gmail.com>
Andrew Paprocki wrote:
> I've been encountering many, many problems with Hitachi 1tb drives
> under a Sil3114 chipset and I'm wondering if there could be something
> wrong with the driver/chipset in relation to these drives.
> Statistically, I've had 6 out of 7 drives exhibit very strange failure
> conditions while being used under this controller.
>
> Some symptoms:
> - Clicking noises while in operation
> - What appears to sound/feel like the drive spins down quickly and
> back up again with no console output
This most definitely is a power problem.
> - SMART reporting seek read errors which mysteriously appear/disappear
> completely
> - Failed I/O requests
And you'll lose data and corrupt filesystems too.
Buy a new cheap single lane PSU. Power it up and connect half of the
drives to the new PSU.
--
tejun
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2008-01-31 8:13 Hitachi 7K1000 1tb drives and sata_sil 3114 chipset Andrew Paprocki
2008-02-02 7:34 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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