New build, some issues brewing

[daldridge]

Hey everyone, I've just begun to dive into unraid (I'm not a stranger to linux, fortunately).  Anyways, I've migrated my WHS to unraid, and currently now this is what I have:

Intel DG41TY MB

Intel Pentium E6300

1 x 1GB OCZ DDR2 800

Data

1 x 1.5TB Seagate ST31500341AS

1 x 1TB Samsung HD103UJ

Parity

1 x 2TB Seagate ST32000540AS

 

Anyways, I'm getting some read errors on the Samsung drive, I've copied my past bin here: http://pastebin.com/C8GyEUgt

I'm looking on some advice on what to do with it, as you can see from the pastebin I also have a WD WD2002FYPS-01U1B0 drive that I was going to replace the parity drive with, but at this point in time I don't know if that would be a very smart move.  Thanks in advance, Derek.

 

[Chris Pollard]

check SMART.  If that looks OK then try a new cable.

[purko]

Anyways, I'm getting some read errors on the Samsung drive, I've copied my past bin here: http://pastebin.com/C8GyEUgt

I'm looking on some advice on what to do with it, as you can see from the pastebin I also have a WD WD2002FYPS-01U1B0 drive that I was going to replace the parity drive with, but at this point in time I don't know if that would be a very smart move.  Thanks in advance, Derek.

You have lots of various disk errors reported in your syslog.

But before we get to the disk errors, we see some weird ACPI related messages:

Mar 31 19:34:41 UNRAID kernel: ACPI Warning: 32/64 FACS address mismatch in FADT - two FACS tables! (20090903/tbfadt-369)
Mar 31 19:34:41 UNRAID kernel: ACPI Warning: 32/64X FACS address mismatch in FADT - 3DB5BF40/000000003DB60F40, using 32 (20090903/tbfadt-486)
Mar 31 19:34:41 UNRAID kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0FFFFFFFF) is beyond end of object (20090903/exoparg2-445)
Mar 31 19:34:41 UNRAID kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE1.GTM_] (Node f7413858), AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT
Mar 31 19:34:41 UNRAID kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.IDE1.CHN1._GTM] (Node f7413798), AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT
Mar 31 19:34:41 UNRAID kernel: ata2: ACPI get timing mode failed (AE 0x300b)

The above may mean that you have buggy ACPI in your BIOS.

Check if there is any BIOS update for that mobo, and/or try booting with the "acpi=off" option in your syslinux.cfg

Do that and post a new syslog.

 

[daldridge]

Thanks for the help!  The drive passed the SMART test without issue, and there was a loose SATA cable.  It was perfect timing for my 5-pack of cables from mwave to show up.  There also was a BIOS update dated 3/1/10, and now the ACPI errors are gone.  I'll be keeping an eye on the syslog.  Thank you guys again for your help.

[t2ffn]

Daldridge,

 

How do you find the mobo? Only 4 sata ports isn't ideal, do you have a sata pcie card to expand sata ports?

 

I have this same mobo, and am about to start my unraid server build.