Andrew Paprocki wrote: > I've been encountering many, many problems with Hitachi 1tb drives > under a Sil3114 chipset and I'm wondering if there could be something > wrong with the driver/chipset in relation to these drives. > Statistically, I've had 6 out of 7 drives exhibit very strange failure > conditions while being used under this controller. > > Some symptoms: > - Clicking noises while in operation > - What appears to sound/feel like the drive spins down quickly and > back up again with no console output This most definitely is a power problem. > - SMART reporting seek read errors which mysteriously appear/disappear > completely > - Failed I/O requests And you'll lose data and corrupt filesystems too. Buy a new cheap single lane PSU. Power it up and connect half of the drives to the new PSU. -- tejun - 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
