I thought about this as well - I have an Enermax 450 in there right now... I'll have to look for a higher watt power supply next I guess. Thanks, Jeremy On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Brad Campbell <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29/12/11 10:23, Jeremy Thompson wrote: >> >> Here is an excerpt from the dmesg log: >> >> [77832.251754] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x280000 action >> 0x0 >> [77832.261281] ata3.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x696d0009 >> [77832.271043] ata3: SError: { 10B8B BadCRC } >> [77832.280933] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT >> [77832.290523] ata3.00: cmd 25/00:00:78:0f:c0/00:04:5b:00:00/e0 tag 0 >> dma 524288 in >> [77832.290526] res 51/04:6f:78:0f:c0/00:00:00:00:00/f0 Emask >> 0x1 (device error) >> [77832.308903] ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR } >> [77832.318246] ata3.00: error: { ABRT } >> [77832.408077] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 >> [77832.408142] ata3: EH complete >> >> The same lines go for ata6 and ata5. So 3 drives have bad cables? I >> have to mention before starting the reshaping process, I did not see >> these errors or at least they were not as pronounced as they are >> today. >> > I'd have a close look at your power supply rather than the cables. > > I've seen odd behaviour across multiple drives when they were all under load > (as they are in a reshape) which went away when I replaced the marginal > power supply with something more substantial and better engineered. > > Regards, > Brad -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html