On Sunday, 13 March 2022 15:02:15 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:06:39PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 12 March 2022 08:50:07 EST Andy Smith wrote: > > > I think it still might be worth changing the cable and/or moving > > > the > > > drive about to see if the error follows the drive or stays with the > > > port. > > […] > > > Difficult at best. All 4 drives from the same purchase, mounted 2 to > > the 3.5" adapter, and all 4 shoved into a front panel-less drive > > cage below the floppy slot in a huge tower case about 17 yo. Rather > > than blame data cables, I'd start by changing out the power splitter > > cables, this psu doesn't have near enough sata power plugs for 7 > > drives, only 1 of which is spinning rust.
And that one quit answering the phone fron smartctl yesterday afternoon. That was my backup src. So that cable will be hooked to a 1T SSD yet today which will be formatted and /home copied to it as that is a huge majority of what I need for a backup. Thats next on the agenda before I do anything else. If I casn get a sata power cable out, that might get done w/o a powerdown since that seems to be the reinstall generator. Got that done, hooked a fresh data cable up to /dev/sdc's socket on the mobo, then carefully inserted the power plug, and /dev/sdc just reported a temp change from smartctl's scan. But while I was doing that, I wrote a copy of LinuxCNC's latest buster install iso to a key, so if I can get it to boot from a key, I'll have a buster install ready to go. The raid10 is sde-f-g-h, and this drive I must have had it the raid before , and is now showing up at /dev/sdd. and on further checking, I've rebooted since disconnecting /dev/sdc, and udev has helpfully reset the drives on damned letter down, to d-e-f-g. grrrrrrrrr. But where the hell is it, the drive I just hooked up is marked as an EVO-870 but /dev/sdc is an EVO-860 & 500gigs. /dev/sdb is a 240G ADATA 650, and /dev/sdc is reporting its a EVO-860 of 500G. Obviously fdisk is getting bogus data from some place. You'd better hope I can reboot. But first clean up / dev/sdb and reformat & copy /home to it so I might stand a chance of recovering my work. Have fun Charles cuz I sure as heck am not. > > I don't think you need to replace every cable (power and data) at > once. If you locate which drive is on ata6 now, and move it to > another port, then whether the error follows the drive or stays with > the port will provide useful information. > Its in a card cage with a big fan in front and the psu blocking the rear, It will be a powerdown to do that. But I don't have much hope, the cable I unplugged to get it off the bus was plugged in correctly. If I can get the power cable unplugged, then its drawer can be removed from the front. > Just try to only change one thing at a time so if symptoms do change > then you can tell what you did to provoke that. That would be nice, if the change was easy to do insitu. Its not. > Cheers, > Andy > > -- > https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting > > . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
