Userpaul

Thanks I'm currently ordering another 3 X 2TB hdd's but I will only connect 2 of them the other one I am going to keep as a spare which will be installed into the bottom hdd cage ready to connect if another drive fails. TBH I would have liked to have the fan controller mounted in the front but the Sharkoon fan covers would not allow it unless i wanted to do some serious work with a cutting tool

Here are a few pictures of my build, unfortunately this build took a two months to complete because I had to order two fan covers from Italy!! I added two fans under each of my 8 port sata cards as they seemed to get very hot. The first few pics are of the testing and pre clearing of the hdd's I changed / upgraded the psu. I have mounted the fan controller outside the box and I am controlling the fans on the cpu. heat pipes, fans mounted under the sata cards and the fans on the door. I have temperature sensors on the sata cards and heat pipes. 31/07/17 will add pictures soon as photobucket now wants fees for hosting

I'm trying to preclear a Seagate 500 gb hdd and it stuck at 70% for a while and then a "killed message came up on the screen. My syslog is to big to post but here is a flavour. Syslog is 1.6GB Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor] Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: 00 00 00 0f Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 37 3f e9 10 00 00 08 00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 926935312 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor] Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: 00 00 00 97 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 37 3f ea 98 00 00 08 00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 926935704 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor] Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: 00 00 00 1f Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 37 3f ec 20 00 00 08 00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 926936096 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Dec 12 19:15:56 Tower kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Is the hdd faulty? A few minutes later the system locked up. Will have to reboot

Great build and the pics are good to..That link is very nice and well written..Well done