on 23/05/2009 05:26 Alexander Motin said the following:
Hi.
Joe Karthauser wrote:
I spoke too soon. It must have just randomly booted, because it is now
hanging again. No amount of jiggling cables has made any difference.
Can you provide verbose boot messages of your system from the
Hi Alexander,
I've love it if you were able to provide some insight into this problem.
I'm going to try switching sata cables around next to see if the problem
goes away if I disconnect some combination of bays.
Thanks,
Joe
on 22/05/2009 19:39 Kip Macy said the following:
Motin is your
This appears to have gone away now. I unplugged the bay that was causing
the trouble, and the system booted just fine on the remaining 4 drives.
Then I plugged the bay back in (live) and did an atacontrol
detach/attach on that bus (I wonder why I always have to do that). The
drive was seen,
I saw really strange stuff with one bad SATA cable on my 6 drive ZFS array.
It would work most of the time, but
the scrub would either cough up CRC's or hang.
I wound up replacing the disk *AND* the cable, and it's been fine since.
This is on a SuperMicro chassis with Intel chips.
YMMV
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I spoke too soon. It must have just randomly booted, because it is now
hanging again. No amount of jiggling cables has made any difference.
:(.
Joe
on 22/05/2009 20:40 Joe Karthauser said the following:
Hi Alexander,
I've love it if you were able to provide some insight into this problem.
Hi.
Joe Karthauser wrote:
I spoke too soon. It must have just randomly booted, because it is now
hanging again. No amount of jiggling cables has made any difference.
Can you provide verbose boot messages of your system from the beginning
up to the problem? Especially, all related to the ATA.
