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 only one

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.

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

2008-01-13 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 are