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08-06-2013, 08:35 AM
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Bad Sata Port
I think I have a bad SATA port on my server motherboard. I had sage give recording errors last night and noticed after a reboot that one HDD was giving SMART errors on startup. Had a spare drive, so I swapped it, but having issues with that drive too, put in a third drive and it worked mostly, until I tried copying a large amount of data, then it got really slow.
How can you diagnose a SATA port?
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08-06-2013, 10:40 AM
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I think you already started to.
 Try a different cable next, though. I'd also try the drives in a different port or even a different computer to see if they reappear. This would also let you know if the SATA controller itself is bad. I've never seen that happen but everything is possible. Also, take a look at your capacitors on the mobo. While it's not very common anymore, it does still happen.
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08-06-2013, 10:44 AM
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I put the original sage recording drive in another computer to copy the files across, worked OK, but would slow to crawl when copying files. Thought it was the original drive not working very well, but then did a test to copy to another drive and it worked fine. So it seems that it has something to do with either the SATA port or possibly the cable. I'll have to swap drives between cables and see what happens.
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08-06-2013, 12:23 PM
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Also, check out HDSentinel as it does a great job analyzing drives and predicting failures. I paid for it (no regrets), but you can apparently get v4.20 for free (legally) using the license on this site. Note the little disclaimer at the bottom, though. Additionally, you will not be able to upgrade beyond 4.20 using that license, but it should still work just fine for your drives.
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Server: XP, SuperMicro X9SAE-V, i7 3770T, Thermalright Archon SB-E, 32GB Corsair DDR3, 2 x IBM M1015, Corsair HX1000W PSU, CoolerMaster CM Storm Stryker case Storage: 2 x Addonics 5-in-3 3.5" bays, 1 x Addonics 4-in-1 2.5" bay, 24TB Client: Windows 7 64-bit, Foxconn G9657MA-8EKRS2H, Core2Duo E6600, Zalman CNPS7500, 2GB Corsair, 320GB, HIS ATI 4650, Antec Fusion Tuners: 2 x HD-PVR (HTTP tuning), 2 x HDHR, USB-UIRT Software: SageTV 7
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08-07-2013, 07:13 AM
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I am really confused now. Unplugged the sata cables and moved them to a different drive, got SMART errors on that drive. Moved the cables back to the original order, no errors and everything is working fine. I was able to copy 1.5TB of data back to the drive, no issues.
I installed HD Sentinel, had Crystal Disk before, not sure which I like better, but will play with both for a little while.
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Sage Server: i5-2500K 8 GB DDR, 6000gb HDD, 4xHD-PVR < 4xBell 6141, Win7 x64 Client 1: HD-200, Panasonic 42PX75 Client 2: HD-300, Samsung LCD Client 3: HD-300, Samsung PN50C550 Client 4: MS Surface Pro
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08-07-2013, 07:46 AM
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The cable may have just been loose. Are you using locking SATA cables? I use those exclusively, even if they aren't supported by everything I buy.
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Server: XP, SuperMicro X9SAE-V, i7 3770T, Thermalright Archon SB-E, 32GB Corsair DDR3, 2 x IBM M1015, Corsair HX1000W PSU, CoolerMaster CM Storm Stryker case Storage: 2 x Addonics 5-in-3 3.5" bays, 1 x Addonics 4-in-1 2.5" bay, 24TB Client: Windows 7 64-bit, Foxconn G9657MA-8EKRS2H, Core2Duo E6600, Zalman CNPS7500, 2GB Corsair, 320GB, HIS ATI 4650, Antec Fusion Tuners: 2 x HD-PVR (HTTP tuning), 2 x HDHR, USB-UIRT Software: SageTV 7
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