sata problems

[drew einhorn]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 11:39 -0600, drew einhorn wrote:
>
> >
> > The controller thats giving me problems is a:
> >
> >
> >     SiL 3132 SATARaid with bios 7.4.05
>
> Here's another shot in the dark, but on my motherboard the SATA
> connector is slightly loose. The builder of my machine dabbed some
> silicone rubber where the plug went into it's base to hold it more
> secure, after it dried. He mentioned that it was a common problem. If I
> nudged the machine, just the slightest, the drive would disconnect. The
> silicone fixed that. No idea if I was BS'd or not, but it worked. Ric
>

Need to do more testing.
But the error is triggered when I start copying lots of data to the external
enclosure, either with a cp -R or (cd source; tar cf - .) | (cd dest; tar xf
-),
not when a cable gets jiggled.


-- 
Drew Einhorn

"You can see a lot by just looking."
  --  Yogi Berra
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