Re: SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-24 Thread rgheck
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Jim MacBaine wrote: A co-worker, to whom I explained my problem, asked me whether I had properly grounded my drives. In fact I had not: The drives resided in a vibration-absorbing frame through which their exterior had no electrical contact with the grounded case. Sin

Re: SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-24 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Jim MacBaine wrote: > A co-worker, to whom I explained my problem, asked me whether I had > properly grounded my drives. In fact I had not: The drives resided in > a vibration-absorbing frame through which their exterior had no > electrical contact with the grounded case. Since I grounded t

Re: SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-24 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hi, On Jan 21, 2008 8:47 AM, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you still have the old PSU lying around, please try to power one of > the failing drive with the old PSU. Just leave everything else as-is, > power-up old PSU by itself as described in the following web page and > connect onl

Re: SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Jim MacBaine wrote: > On Jan 13, 2008 1:07 PM, Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The fact that the problems occur on different disks on >> different controllers driven by different drivers indicates >> that it's not a disk, controller, or driver problem. >> >> I strongly suspect an

Re: SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-19 Thread Jim MacBaine
On Jan 19, 2008 5:50 PM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if your problems are similar to mine or not. But I have > been having extensive problems for quite some time now. Do you get these > timeouts when using optical drives? No, I don't see any connections to optical drives here

Re: SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-19 Thread rgheck
Jim MacBaine wrote: On Jan 13, 2008 1:07 PM, Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote The fact that the problems occur on different disks on different controllers driven by different drivers indicates that it's not a disk, controller, or driver problem. I strongly suspect an underdimensioned

Re: SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-19 Thread Jim MacBaine
On Jan 13, 2008 1:07 PM, Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact that the problems occur on different disks on > different controllers driven by different drivers indicates > that it's not a disk, controller, or driver problem. > > I strongly suspect an underdimensioned or failing

Re: SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-13 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Jim MacBaine writes: > Hi, > > Recently I'm experiencing strange sata errors on my desktop system. > The system was recently equipped with three 250 GB SATA drives from Clue #1: added drives > three different manufacturers and I'm having an identical problem on > two of them. The drives a

SATA timeouts on two disks

2008-01-12 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hi, Recently I'm experiencing strange sata errors on my desktop system. The system was recently equipped with three 250 GB SATA drives from three different manufacturers and I'm having an identical problem on two of them. The drives are connected to two on-board controllers on an Asus A8V board,