Subject: Re: hard driver CRC error with RAID 5 under 2.0 release
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg@myrealbox.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/16/2004 17:20:11
> In the dmesg you posted, wd2 gets errrors too.
>
> ATA electrical specifications assumes 18 inches cables. With longer cables
> you're out of specs, and all sort of things can happens.
I re-used the standard cables for all hard drivers.(I fixed the case ;))
It looks fine with ATA 100 during boot. I'm tring to rebuild the RAID frame.
I will report the result later...
> Note that another thing to look at is the power supply. With 8 hard drives,
> it's possible that your power supply is too short.
There is a double power supply on the server. I think there is no problem
about this.
Thanks for your reply!