On 04-03-14 02:09, ED Fochler wrote: > The behavior you describe over a reboot makes it smell like a hardware type > of error. The timing you speak of is typical of a thermal buildup problem. > > It could still be your drive. Could be your sata cable. Could be power > supply. Try having a room fan blow on all of the equipment to see if that > changes the behavior. If SATA, try reducing the drive to 1.5Gb communication > speed. Your steps so far, while not foolproof, appear reasonable. It’s > difficult to prove anything for certain without a duplicate net5501 to swap > in. > > If it’s one of the faster 5501s, you could downclock the CPU in the BIOS to > see if the reduced heatload / power draw along with the timing change makes > any difference. > > It doesn’t sound like a platter failure, it sounds more like a controller or > communication error, so SMART in this case is very dumb. I wouldn’t expect > it to tell you anything useful. It’s possible that your OS upgrade changed > timings on interrupts and introduced a sensitivity to this problem, but it’s > more likely just age and heat. I’m an OpenBSD guy. I don’t know what’s been > going on with Debian. > > ED.
Thanks for your suggestions. I've opened up the box, disconnected all cables and switched the sata to esata cable. Interestingly enough it kept running through the night without any issues. I've got it all back in the original state except for one cable: from the usb header to usb connector. This cable pushed up the sata cable (which was fitted with a 90 degree sata adapter, lacking a cable with the 'right' angle sata connector. Hence the sata cable only started right before the usb header, hence the strain). Anyways, I'll have to find another solution for that. I hope this is the problem and it won't sneak back in, but so far, so good. Thanks for the help, Maarten _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
