> I know of a 4-port sata card that when it has certain issues it seems > to affect all 4 ports, and required a reboot to fix. The card I had > was an AHCI card with a 4port SATA x pci-e-x2 card, and things like > smart commands running against it made it much more unreliable, but > even without the smart commands running against it, it was not > completely stable and would act up say 1x a month or so. If the > 4-port card he has is not one of the near-enterprise grade cards then > I would suspect that as I attempted to use several non-enterprise > grade sata cards and finally gave up and obtained a used-enterprise > grade SAS card. I've seen that happen with a cheap 8-port SATA-controller. I can only guess the capacitive load with all those cables was higher than what it was designed for. He replaced the controller with an Avago 16-port (4xSAS) controller and it's been stable since. Vennlig hilsen roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- Hið góða skaltu í stein höggva, hið illa í snjó rita.
