So as the title suggests, I had the most catastrophic psu/board failure that it blew the PCH and I killed a graphics card, then sacrificed a second to the blood gods just trying to troubleshoot. So I slapped a new proc and board together and unfortuantely it has a far less capable sata controller went from 10 to 6... Then found out 2 don't work with an m.2 present. So I threw in a slow boy sata expansion card. I thought this was the issue but apparently not since when its on the actual board sata ports it does the same thing.


So this is the unusual situation behind this drive, It failed once before, I put anotehr one in and kinda botched it so it wound up that it declares its RYW which actually found later it works so its in the system and it says nah, wrong drive, the drive I turned into it is the drive that matches that 2E4166 which is a WD 4tb drive. Its available as well. Selecting either the original or the replacement that took its place and was working when it went down, it still tells me I have the wrong disk.

Is there some way to force it to try with the drive of my choice or am I screwed? luckily this is the cache ingestion pool  sooooo no REAL major loss... I think.... If i can't recover it but boy would I like to. Many thanks for any opinoins.

Please post the diagnostics, but the SATA controller is likely the problem.

My apologies, been a minute since I was looking for assistance. Here you are.arkenstone-diagnostics-20231019-1300.z Thank you!

This is kind of strange since both pool disks are using the same controller, and being detected differently, but there are a lot of ATA errors for spincache2, so start by replacing the cables for that disk.

 

There are also issues with the disks connected to the Asmedia controller, and those are likely caused by the controller itself since it uses port multipliers, that controller should be replaced.

Yeah this is all exceptionally temporary to pull off wedding photos shot at previous engagement to send out to client. So if I can get it stood for a couple hours that would work for me. Thank you for your insight this alligns with what i've been seeing as i've replaced most of the sata cables at this point seemingly when the PCH went it surged the entire system when it cooked the 2600X but all not bad since I had a 3800X to replace it with soooo in the end it wil lbe a benefit, I just need a new nice AM4 board to replace my cheapy backup. Wonderful. I have a direction at least. Will report back with results of replacing sata cables and if that doesn't work, I have one last drastic measure which is to basically transplant all drives to my main gaming machine as it has a crosshair VII hero wifi board that has more than enough sata support to make it happen.

Cable swaps didn't seem to change anything, I guess where I'm at is going to have to be good enough for governement. Swaping cables did bring a couple back enough to get the array up and running but that spin cache is dead for good as best I can tell at this point, I'm going to wait till i replace the board so I can unite them all on the same sata controller to see if it makes a difference but I am not optimistic.

 

Thank you for the assistance.