On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:03:52AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > The A8V Deluxe has two SATA controllers on board: One VIA controller, > and one Promise controller. Both are "RAID" controllers, both are being > used in JBOD mode. > > I have two Seagate ST3200826AS SATA drives. If I attach them to the > Promise controller, all is fine. > > If I attach them to the VIA controller, using the same cables, etc., the > one on the "primary" port always fails with "scsi parity error." I can > swap the drives around (moving sdb to sda and vice versa) by changing > where the cable plugs into on the motherboard, and its always sda that > fails. > > Any suggestions what this might be, other than a defective board?
Well I run the same board here but with 2 WD 250G SATA drives on the VIA ports (and a 120G on a promise port). Never had a problem yet. Now some seagates have been known to have slightly broken sata firmware which is known to cause serious problems with sil3112 controllers, but I haven't heard of them having problems with VIA. Either way I am staying away from seagate drives personally for the time being. It really sounds like you have a broken port on the board. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
