[mythtv-users] OT: Hard disks randomly not found

Ma Begaj derliebegott at gmail.com
Tue May 26 08:53:39 UTC 2009


2009/5/25 Brian Wood <beww at beww.org>:
> On Monday 25 May 2009 07:30:49 Ma Begaj wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had 3x320 GB (Samsung) in my desktop/mythbox. I decided to take out
>> two of these drives, replace them with one 1TB disk (Samsung Green...)
>> and leave one of these 320GB drives for some other files.
>>
>> I saw some I/O error in syslog while copying file from 320GB disks to
>> 1TB disk but copying finished nicely.
>>
>> But the problem persisted.
>>
>> During boot process some disks are not being recognized and BIOS POST
>> is taking minutes to list the hardware. 1st disk (/dev/sda, one of the
>> those 320GB disks) is always found, but all other disks are making
>> problems. Ctrl+Alt+Del (for reboot) usually helps and all disks are
>> working without any problems after that. This happens pretty randomly.
>> Cold boot does not make it better or worse.
>>
>> Smartmon finds no errors and hard disks were OK before I opened the
>> case to replace disks.
>> RAM has no errors, everything is working as it should.
>> PSU has enough power for the hardware.
>> I already checked the cables but I will do it again because SATA
>> cables are terrible.
>>
>> I will update BIOS later. BIOS battery could be bad, but the
>> motherboard is few months old. And I partly refuse to accept that
>> battery or something else just accidentaly start making problems when
>> I was replacing hardware.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> While it might seem overly-coincidental that the problems started when you you
> replaced the drives, remember that every time you open the case and start
> putting your hands into it there is a good chance of bumping a card or a
> cable that was marginally loose to start with.

I believe that I *did* something because it is too much coicidence.
But I just hope that
I did not destroyed something on the motherboard through statci
electricity or ... who knows :)

thanks


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