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From: Peter Klotz <peter.klotz@aon.at>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Errors when powering on eSATA box
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:06:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEB635F.50404@aon.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEA2C54.9040502@gmail.com>

Robert Hancock wrote:
> On 10/29/2009 02:41 PM, Peter Klotz wrote:
>> I have an eSATA box (2 HDDs) that when operated in BIG mode shows lots
>> of errors during startup.
>>
>> Both HDDs are started then stopped and started again.
>>
>> When first starting up the system reports a size of 7.99 GiB, finally
>> the correct value of 2.72 TiB is displayed.
>>
>> Can I trust a system showing the errors below?
> 
> I suspect this is one of those funky Silicon Image RAID PMP things that 
> has the fake "Config Disk" that shows up to allow configuring the RAID 
> array, and then presumably it then goes offline and then the actual RAID 
> array device shows up..

Yes, it is a Silicon Image (Sil5744) box.

Thanks for this explanation.

Now I am stuck with this box.

BIG mode shows these errors and I will not trust a system showing that 
many errors on startup.

JBOD mode shows no errors but requires PMP to see both HDDs which my 
SATA controller does not support. Maybe I can find an eSATA Express Card 
with PMP support that works in Linux.

Regards, Peter.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-30 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-29 20:41 Errors when powering on eSATA box Peter Klotz
2009-10-29 23:59 ` Robert Hancock
2009-10-30 22:06   ` Peter Klotz [this message]
2009-11-09  9:09     ` Tejun Heo

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