Recommended SATA controllers
Bob Bishop
rb at gid.co.uk
Tue May 22 07:04:21 UTC 2007
Hi,
On 22 May 2007, at 00:02, Tim Aslat wrote:
> In the immortal words of Gary Corcoran on 05/22/07 08:31:
>
>> I've had drives go bad, such that upon powerup, the Promise
>> controller BIOS
>> wouldn't even see the drive. And later, as the drive got closer
>> to death,
>> it started making the *other* drive on the same IDE cable also
>> "fail".
>> Removing the dying/dead drive from the cable made the other drive
>> work again.
>
> I've taken the drives out and hooked them up to a different
> connector (external USB2) and they work flawlessly, they are also
> only about 3 months old and quite underused as the machine they are
> in spends more time offline than online.
>
>> I'd look into the possible need to replace one of your disk drives...
>
> I'm quite sure the drives are fine. It's either an incompatibility
> with the FreeBSD & the promise card, or the mainboard is actually
> on its last legs.
>
>
> I'm going to have to see if I can chase up another board today and
> see if that helps.
I've had onboard SATA controller chips go bad and produce all sorts
of odd symptoms. I've also had similar problems from other causes.
You need to eliminate:
- the drives: put them in a known good system and use the
manufacturers diagnostic program
- the cables: use know good
- the power supply: ditto
Which leaves memory/CPU/something else on the motherboard. Memory can
be tested, but at this point an upgrade may be indicated :-)
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