More on SATA crashing -- solved (I think)

[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 crashed under disk activity load.
>
> The ASUS X79-Deluxe that runs omen.com has
> three SATA controllers:
>
> Intel® X79 chipset :
> 2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), black
> 4 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), black,
> Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10
> Marvell® PCIe 9230 controller :
> 4 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), dark brown
> ASMedia® ASM1061 controller :
> 2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), dark brown
> 2 x Power eSATA 6Gb/s port(s), green
>
> In the last crash, the active disk was on one of the non Intel
> controllers.
>
> As before there was nothing in the log files.
> The screen showed error messages on /dev/sdf.
> I changed SATA connectors so the root drive is on
> the Intel controller.
>

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