On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Neil Walker <n...@ep.mine.nu> wrote: > On 26/03/10 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote: >> I'm using kernel 2.6.33 and ahci driver for the SATA controllers. >> > > I never had good results with the ahci driver - hardware-specific > drivers have always worked better for me. > >> Another possibility is that I need to increase voltage on the >> motherboard, since it is running 6 hdd's and 1 DVD-ROM. I'll have to >> research to see which voltage is related to this. (X58 motherboard) >> > > No, no, no! Don't touch the motherboard voltages! They have nothing > to do with the connected drives. Surely you must have noticed that > power to the drives comes directly from the power supply. If the > drives are not receiving sufficient voltage, a new, bigger power supply > is the only option.
Well, I was thinking more about something like alteriong IOH/ICH voltage, or whichever voltage powers the SATA controllers. It has 12 SATA headers on this motherboard but I don't know how much it can realistically handle at once. Hopefully all of my disks. :)
