Re: More on SATA crashing -- solved (I think)

2014-09-03 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
I replaced the Hitachi 3TB drive that was producing the write errors with a new 4TB drive. Copying of the files took a while but was successful.The disk system seems stable now. On 09/01/2014 01:04 AM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: Reverting to Heisenbug did not entirely eliminate SATA cras

Re: More on SATA crashing

2014-09-01 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
After the last crash, I rearranged the SATA cables to put the root HD on the first SATA port. Here is an excerpt from /var/log/messages. smartctl -a /dev/sdf shows NO errors or relocated blocks. The drive works perfectly after a reboot. Sep 1 19:53:38 omen kernel: [23405.976035] sd 6:0:0:0: [sd

More on SATA crashing

2014-09-01 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
Reverting to Heisenbug did not entirely eliminate SATA crashed under disk activity load. The ASUS X79-Deluxe that runs omen.com has three SATA controllers: IntelĀ® X79 chipset : 2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), black 4 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), black, Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10 MarvellĀ® PCIe 9230 controller : 4