On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 02:43:09PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > Looks as if something has become loose - when the change started, > /dev/sde was present and had become one of the WD drives. But now > it has disappeared. I suspect a loose connection of the adaptor > card (the mobo only has 4 SATA ports, I need more). So it might > have very little to do with udev. I'll be powering down once I've > finished the current copies to external drive. > I suspect the SATA cable on the add-in card had become slightly loose - my experience of SATA cables in the past week is discouraging, they do not seem to connect as reliably as the old ATA connectors. On the new box I had some vagaries while putting it together (initially with a couple of random old spinning drives to check what connected where, the RAID drives were still in the old server at that time) and then it seemed ok for the best part of a week - meanwhile I had fun and games putting SSDs in the old box, cables kept falling out.
At the moment the RAID is rebuilding and not mounted, will have to see how things go. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
