On Wednesday 13 January 2021 16:55:37 David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-13 11:07, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I am getting very frequent disk errors and I can't figure out which > > > > drive they are occurring on. I get two messages: > >> [174384.704895] sata_sil 0000:05:00.0: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT > >> domain=0x0000 address=0x00000000cf99c100 flags=0x0000] > >> > >> [174384.705153] AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=05:00.0 > >> domain=0x0000 address=0x00000000df853000 flags=0x0000] > > > > Several of each of them occur at once, every few seconds. > > Is there any way that I can figure out which drive is causing the > > problem? > > If you have any red SATA cables, replace them with new black SATA 6 > Gbps cables with locking connectors. (I use Cable Matters cables.)
I am glad to see someone else preaching about red (technically its magenta) cables. Something in the plastic dye used to get that "hot red" color does not cohabit well with the copper in the cables. I've known about it since the early 70's when the Japanese CB radio's all had a hot red color of wire in their mike cables. The failure rate was 100% in about 2 years, or less for the truckers, you could shake the copper out of the end of a cut off piece of that wire as a rust colored powder. It was no longer a currant conducting wire. We replaced them with Belden cables, but then demand had Belden buying Japanese too. At one point, I had over 50 CB radios waiting on mike cables at Norfolk Two-Way Radio in Norfolk Nebraska. To this day, I still say to replace them with any other color, black sata-III with latching clips are best but still hard to find, the id10t filling your order doesn't care what color so you have to get downright snotty when sending a 10 pack of the red ones back for credit. Maddening when you gave the phone sales person taking your order instructions that they could be any color /but/ red. Yet I've been called out on THIS list, for mentioning that the red ones are time bombs. > Download the manufacturer diagnostic utility for whatever brand > disk(s) you own and run it. I prefer tools that run on bootable media > (e.g. USB flash drive); Windows may be required. > > > 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
