Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:21:13 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Link to sata drives fail randomly |
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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
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