On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:32:03AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > My primary computer had a sudden failure yesterday. I was working, I > turned around to grab something, and the whole thing just powered down > while I was looking away. I tried everything to power it back up, but > nothing worked. However, it wasn't *completely* dead because two LEDs > on the motherboard came on, just nothing else. So, I started to pull it > apart and do some investigation. I pulled another power supply and > plugged just the motherboard into it, and viola, it came up. So, I guess > the 12v rail on my other power supply died. I went to Best Buy to buy a > new power supply (the one I tested with really wasn't big enough for > this machine), bring it back home, and got to work replacing the entire > power supply. > > I happen to always buy fully modular power supplies if I can, so I was > in the process of swapping things out, and I didn't realize I had > plugged a Corsair modular SATA power cable in the SATA connector on the > new power supply and ran it to the bank of 4 SSDs I have in my main > computer. Until I powered the new EVGA power supply and immediately > heard some odd crackling followed by the unmistakable smell of magic > smoke (quite strong I might add). So, moral of this story is, while the > EVGA and Corsair modular connectors for SATA power cables use identical > physical connectors and will happily plug in on each other's power > supplies, how they wire them up most definitely is *not* identical, and > all four SSDs that were plugged into that modular SATA power cable are > now toast. This includes my primary workstation and all data that was > on it. Fortunately, I keep backups and what not, but I am currently > sending this email from my laptop and I will likely loose the next day > to two days to the task of reinstalling from scratch, then restoring > from backup (even as I write this, my laptop is writing a Fedora 27 Beta > USB boot key). Joy! Hi Doug, Thank you for keeping us in the loop, as far as I can see there are no -rc material except this one: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10032391/ This patch is extremely important to forward to Linus in this cycle, before -rc is closed, because NLDEV was added in v4.14 merge window. Will it be OK from you side if I forward this to Linus immediately? Thanks > > -- > Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> > GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD > Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD > > >
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