Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> This has been happening on a lightly loaded box for a while now. I have
> posted about it before.
> The issue is now I've upgraded 3 drives from 250GB Maxtors to 750GB
> WD's, it's just getting worse, particularly when the drives are loaded.
> I've jumpered the WD's to 1.5GB PHY speed (I had to do that or the
> on-board via sata controller would not recognise one of the drives.
> The box is a bit of a mish-mash of controllers. I have 3 Promise
> SATA150TX4, one SIL3112 (all on PCI cards) and the on-board 2 port VIA
> driver.
> 
> I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do really, short of replacing the
> Promise cards with something else.

ATA bus error is a strong indicator for hardware problem.  Please get a
separate power supply (doesn't have to be an expensive one), power it up
[1], and connect some of the drives to the power supply and see whether
errors persist on those drives.

-- 
tejun

[1] http://modtown.co.uk/mt/article2.php?id=psumod
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