Brad Campbell wrote: > G'day all, > > This has been happening on a lightly loaded box for a while now. I have > posted about it before. > The issue is now I've upgraded 3 drives from 250GB Maxtors to 750GB > WD's, it's just getting worse, particularly when the drives are loaded. > I've jumpered the WD's to 1.5GB PHY speed (I had to do that or the > on-board via sata controller would not recognise one of the drives. > The box is a bit of a mish-mash of controllers. I have 3 Promise > SATA150TX4, one SIL3112 (all on PCI cards) and the on-board 2 port VIA > driver. > > I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do really, short of replacing the > Promise cards with something else. ATA bus error is a strong indicator for hardware problem. Please get a separate power supply (doesn't have to be an expensive one), power it up [1], and connect some of the drives to the power supply and see whether errors persist on those drives. -- tejun [1] http://modtown.co.uk/mt/article2.php?id=psumod - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
