CuriousMind

Thank you. After removing the failing drive, and then changing to a Molex->SATA splitter, things have (thank God finally) resolved.

I'll see if I cannot purchase some and see if that makes a difference. Fingers crossed

SATA to SATA. I didn't know about that, but with two carriages that hold 4 drives each, I'm not sure how else to make it all work.

Yes, I have a 4 way power splitter set up on both of my hard drive carriages. The parity used to be on a direct connection instead, but I was trying to figure out if it could be a bad power cable (not splitter) so I swapped that side to another brand new splitter.

Well I ran the filesystem check, and the system still immediately disables that disk when I try and mount it. I was able to switch to the second of the new drives to a different SATA and power cable (this would be the third one) and it cleared pre-clear just fine. Of course as soon as I swapped that drive in and started the parity rebuild, I started getting a constant spin-up-chirp-spin-down loop on what has to be either that drive or the parity somehow. I cannot believe that I would have this many bad drives, so am I looking at a bad PSU altogether or something else? SMART looks fine for all disks, system logs look fine, and the disk logs are clear. I stopped the parity sync because I am worried I am going to wreck an otherwise good drive. tower-diagnostics-20240301-2114.zip

I've replaced the power and SATA cables twice, so I'm not sure if that could mean an issue with the board connections. The connections themselves are firmly seated. I'll try the file system check tonight

Sure thing, please see that attached. Thanks tower-diagnostics-20240227-0637.zip

I have a disk in my array that I am trying to replace due to it racking up enough SMART errors that it is being disabled. I purchased a couple of Recertified Drives from Seagate and ran preclear on them one at a time. My issue is that both of them failed preclear, so I am wondering what are the odds that they BOTH are bad? My case has limited space so I utilized the same power and SATA connection for both, swapping in the second drive after the first one failed. I did some searching of the interwebs and the forums for the errors, and it SEEMS like they might just be bad, but I was hoping for a second opinion before I go through reaching out to the vendor for a replacement. Preclear logs attached Thanks for any help! preclear_disk_ZHZ3CPEG_8792.txt

So is this an app that comes configured incorrectly, or just needing a lot of setup? The Support page and ReadMe both make it sound Plug & Play outside of selecting the folder to scan, and of course there are the script suggestions in this thread, but I have not been able to get that far as I cannot even get it to scan. I can manually change the permissions, but I feel like if that is a necessary step too get things working the app should either do it itself, or, if that is not possible, it should say it somewhere obvious. ERROR: Failed to save freshclam.dat! WARNING: Failed to create a new freshclam.dat! ERROR: initialize: libfreshclam init failed. ERROR: Initialization error! 2023-07-15T12:36:32+00:00 ClamAV process starting Unpdating ClamAV scan DB Hint: The database directory must be writable for UID 100 or GID 101 An error occurred (freshclam returned with exit code '2') 2023-07-15T12:36:39+00:00 ClamAV process starting Unpdating ClamAV scan DB Hint: The database directory must be writable for UID 100 or GID 101 An error occurred (freshclam returned with exit code '2') 2023-07-15T12:44:23+00:00 ClamAV process starting Unpdating ClamAV scan DB Hint: The database directory must be writable for UID 100 or GID 101 An error occurred (freshclam returned with exit code '2')

Not sure if you are still looking, but I ended up getting the LSI 6Gbps SAS HBA 9200-8I IT Mode. This was the only one that worked for me out of the box. https://www.ebay.com/itm/133481123885

Sorry, I think you may have missed one of my posts. The original item I ordered was an 8 port SATA card, which did not work. When I was told that was a bad idea, I ordered a 6 port ASCM1166 card, which did not work. After more reading a lot of people were recommending a SAS card, so I bought a StarTech card, which also did not work. I figured the firmware you were talking about would not apply to the SAS card, however I did try the update utility on the 6 port ASCM 1166 card, and that was not detected by the utility.

Okay, so I have unpacked the previously mentioned *6* port SATA PCI-E expansion card, plugged it into my main PC, ran the Silverstone firmware update utility mentioned in your blog post, and was unable to update the firmware for the simple reason that the utility did not detect any compatible hardware. I tried it in another PCI-E slot with the same effect. To be clear, I read (and have read) every post on every page of this, and many other threads, searching for answers. I have spent the last month working on this off and on, and have taken so much advice on the "right" way to do this, or the right things to buy for this to work. I am frustrated because everything I have used *should* have worked with little to no extra effort, at least according to every other post and guide. So should I just be buying a Silverstone card then?

I appreciate the advice, though I am no longer attempting to use the 8 port SATA card I originally linked, as mentioned in my follow-up. I did actually end up trying the 6 port version of the ASM1166 card with the same results from both PCI-E ports on the board. I know at least one of the ports work as I had been trying to set up the new system with my old GPU and that worked fine. What I am attempting to use now is a StarTech PCI-E card utilizing 2 mini-SAS ports with mini-SAS to SATA cables to hook up to 2-3 of my current drives. This new card seems different enough that I was concerned that the firmware would not be compatible. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FY9FBTN?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1) It was my understanding that the cards using the mini-SAS connectors were a better option than the addon SATA cards, but this is my first working with these cards, so if this is the same thing I am more than willing to try the firmware. I just don't want to brick the card and be unable to get a refund if it doesn't work.

That post appears to be talking about a Silverstone card, but I am trying to find a firmware update for the StarTech 8 Port SATA PCIe Card that I bought. What is it with manufacturers making finding firmware updates for their products require moving Heaven and Earth?

Not yet. I just couldn't deal with more of this yesterday, so I took the day off. I'm going to see if I can't update the firmware to see if that works. I'll update if somehow things start working