On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:33:55PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > The error decodes as: > port_status 0x20200000: Drive Error during Packet Command Cycle > (the drive signalled an error to the controller) > > SErr 0x380100: CRC error, Disparity error, 10B-to-8B decoding error, > non-recoverable transient data integrity error. > > My conclusion is that the link between the controller and the drive > is corrupting messages. This is almost certainly a hardware problem, > and could be a broken motherboard (you wrote that you hadn't used > the mobo's Promise chip before), bad cables, bad drives, a bad power > supply, or electrical interference. Mikael, Thanks for the quick response. I appreciate your help. I guess I'm buying a SATA PCI card! Looks like my choice of reasonably-priced known-brands is Highpoint and Promise (specifically a Highpoint ROCKETRAID1520 or a Promise SATA300 TX4) - are one of these brands better from a Linux compatibility or hardware-bug standpoint? Thanks again. -- Phil Dibowitz phil@xxxxxxxx Open Source software and tech docs Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Never write it in C if you can do it in 'awk'; Never do it in 'awk' if 'sed' can handle it; Never use 'sed' when 'tr' can do the job; Never invoke 'tr' when 'cat' is sufficient; Avoid using 'cat' whenever possible" -- Taylor's Laws of Programming
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