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From: "Jonathan Bell" <doggs.lay.eggs@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Strange arbitrary port resets on ICH9R with Seagate drives
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:17:38 +0100
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On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:30:59 +0100, Jonathan Bell  
<doggs.lay.eggs@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I've just purchased a brand spanking new G33/ICH9R based system for use  
> as a home fileserver with 4x ST3750840AS Seagate SATA drives as the main  
> grunt drives.
>
> The problem is that all of the seagate drives keep resetting, as this  
> dmesg excerpt shows:

Oops. Hardware problem. Insufficient power applied to the hotswap caddy  
resulted in the drives bugging out when all 4 were accessed, hence cat/dd  
on an individual drive caused no problems.

Now running these drives quite successfully in raid-5 with NCQ and 3.0Gbps  
links.

Regards
Jonathan