May 23, 201610 yr Hi, all! I bought a 2 port IOCrest SATA controller to fill my only PCIe slot. It does get addressed (It showed up as ports SDE and SDF) but I took a used unraid drive that used to be my Parity drive and I ran a preclear on it to test it out. The preclear completed with a TON of errors. I did some reading and this card used to need a "enable_ahci.zip" file to work right. Does anyone know if this is still needed? Incidentally, I also got a 5 1/4 SATA Dock to take 3.5 or 2.5 drives and the dock plus this card was going to be my solution for preclearing new drives since the card also claims to support hot swap and the dock has a power switch. Here is the link to elkay14's patch: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=19882.msg176751#msg176751 I didn't expect that drive to have any serious issues...it isn't new, and it could have had issues and I didn't know, but it was the parity drive and I checked parity monthly - never had one read error or reallocated sector - nothing. I thought that maybe the controller card might not work right without elkay14's kernel patch. What do you guys think? I do have some logs, but I can't post them until I get home later today. I did try swapping the dock connection for the last SATA port available on my motherboard, but that preclear is still running. I don't mind chucking the drive, but I want to understand if I really have a bad drive or a controller card that sorta works but would benefit with a patch, or if doing this preclear via dock is just bad juju. The drive doesn't make weird noises or anything...it is a WD Green 2TB. Or maybe I am just lucky and swapped out hard drives in the nick of time. (Yeah...RIIIIGHT) UPDATE: Well, the second preclear was still cranking when I went to bed (80% in the follow up read), so I will be a bit longer in posting those logs. Maybe tonight. Should have finished in the night last night, but I didn't check it this morning. I can say that I got a couple of notifications that some sectors reverted...if the drive shows as many errors in the post zero readback - I will consider the drive toast, but then I will also have to acquire a new drive and preclear it to ensure there's no difference between the Asmedia results and the motherboard's native SATA ports.
May 24, 201610 yr No it doesn't need any patching. In fact, I didn't know it had ever needed the patch, it's been fully compatible for so long!
May 24, 201610 yr Author Thanks for that info RobJ...just wanted to make sure. I still have an issue. Not sure if it is Card, Cable, Dock or Drive. I have a 2.5" ssd - I suppose I could preclear that as a test. Update: Well, crud. It's official. May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green (AF, SATA 6Gb/s) May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: Device Model: WDC WD20EZRX-00DC0B0 May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: Serial Number: WD-WCC300178266 May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 25da52c76 May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: Firmware Version: 80.00A80 May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s) May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: Local Time is: Mon May 23 22:14:48 2016 EDT May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: SMART support is: Enabled May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes. May 23 22:14:49 Tower preclear_disk-diff[2714]: Dead Drive. Makes me worry about the situation with the DATA DRIVES - they are just as old. Yikes.
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