I had an issue earlier today I'm hoping is resolved by a hard drive reformat. I'm using this controller for 8 drives. It replaced a prior similar controller. I had read error on the prior controller. This one did the same. So I thought the cables were bade only to wake up to a corrupted cache pool today. The LSI board is IT mode with the latest firmware.

 

What could be causing this? The same disks showed error on both boards. This is the first time the cache pool was corrupted. Could it be the power cables or power supply?

 

A work around may be to move back to the onboard controller. 4 ports are controlled by an asmedia 1061. The other are controlled by an AMD b550 controller. Since AMD controllers have issues, I may pick up a 4 port asmedia board.

 

I would love to get some feedback.

 

24 minutes ago, Mlatx said:

What could be causing this? The same disks showed error on both boards. This is the first time the cache pool was corrupted. Could it be the power cables or power supply?

There could be any reason, i.e. memory, disk itself .... you should provide diagnostic or swap different hardware to found out the cause.

 

As you already got 9207 and cables,  there are quit abnormal that two controller got problem in same system.

I always use spare storage to perform stress read/write test for new system / new add hardware before production, seldom plug & play and touch live data without examination.

This did it across 2 different motherboards, cpu's and memory sticks. I'm running ECC memory and no mem test errors. The disk errors go away after a reboot. Extended smart test always clear good.  The only constant is the drives and the PSU.

 

I think I am pushing the limits of the PSU. I'm going to replace that to see if it makes a difference. 

6 minutes ago, Mlatx said:

I'm going to replace that to see if it makes a difference.

Sound good to replace it instead disk controller again, if it use across 2 different motherboard.