On 09/27/2016 11:36 AM, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:27:13 -0500 > Benjammin2068 <benjammin2068@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I think I did find the problem. The card was running hot due to airflow. >> That's been remedied (I hope) -- the temp sensor on the heat-sink for the >> PCIe controller now sits around 45'C which is fine. Before it was >= >> 60'C . :O > I wouldn't trust such controller anyway. 15 degrees difference and it > (allegedly) gives you silent data corruption? What if you have a particularly > hot day, and/or the AC is out for a few hours. > There is a lot of better failure modes than this (honestly reported read or > CRC errors for a start, or heck, even complete lock-up of the controller would > be more preferrable). > I think it was running way hotter than that. I could only get to it to measure in a certain timespan and it had already cooled off. (that's what heatsinks do) by the time I got a temp sensor on it -- it was too late. -Ben -- 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
