Re: understanding the cause of ATA failures

[Ludovico Cavedon <ludovico.cavedon@gmail.com>]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> If you have the machine locally, one thing you can try is to pull out
> all the drives and hook them up directly to the motherboard bypassing
> the backplane and see whether anything changes.

Yes, I think I'll try to go this way. Unfortunately (or not :) the issue
happens once a month... I'll see if icnreasing the load on the machine
it will happen more frequently.

Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> In short, I don't know how it all needs to be hooked up, what the specific
> device combination needs to be, or what Linux modules you need to
> communicate with the MG9072 chip on that backplane.  Again, call your
> vendor.  It's their product.  They should have the answers.

Yes, I talked to supermirco and suggested basically what Tejun did:
bypass the backplane and see if the problem persists.

> Your welcome.  Glad to pass on some of my experience if it can help someone
> else.  I wish there was more I could do at this point, but it's pretty much
> up to you now.  Hope I've helped steer you in the right direction.  As
> always, don't put all your eggs in this one troubleshooting basket.  The
> cause of the problem could also lie elsewhere so keep and open mind and
> don't throw up your hand in frustration if this track doesn't pan out.

Very valuable info, thank you.

Cheers,
Ludovico