On Tuesday 14 April 2015 23:27:36 David Christensen wrote: > On 04/14/2015 07:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have a 3 drive hot swap cage ... > > wheezy on what is now /dev/sda. ... > > Tonight I cut the blisterpack off the first of the 2Tb drives and > > slid it into slot 2. ... > > Wheezy, with "SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux" kernel > > running cannot connect to it, doing this from /var/log/messages: ... > > These 2 new drives are sata-3, 6Gb/sec drives. From the logs, the > > driver had set it down to 1.5Gbs in an attempt to talk to it, but > > obviously failed. The motherboard book only claims 3Gbs. ... > > Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard ... > > My one Asus motherboard (M2NPV-VM) worked fine, right up until the day > it died. If yours still works, I would expect it to work with new > Seagate SATA 3 HDD's. > > > Disconnect all drives and the cage. > > > Get a power supply tester and test your power supply.
I am monitoring it right now with gkrellm, its good. > > Test your memory: > > http://www.memtest.org/ 3 full cycles about 6 weeks back before I installed wheezy.> > > Take an image of your system drive and back up all of your data. Amanda does that nightly. > > Install one new HDD in an internal drive bay. Connect it to a known > good power cable, and a known good SATA port on the motherboard using > a known good SATA cable. Boot the HDD manufacturer diagnostic CD and > run all the utilities. For Seagate, I use SeaTools for DOS: > > http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-dos-master/ Ok. > > > If the HDD passes all the tests, boot a Debian Wheezy installation CD, > install Debian on the HDD, boot the HDD, log in, and see if there are > errors in the logs. > > > If Debian works correctly, move the HDD to the cage, connect the cage, > and try again. > > > If you run into problems, post the details. > Will do, thanks. > David 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) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504142354.23766.ghesk...@wdtv.com
