Serial ATA (SATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. Serial ATA was designed to replace the older ATA (AT Attachment) standard (also known as EIDE), offering many ...
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How exactly does a SAS SFF-8087 breakout cable work? + RAID/connection questions
Please let me know if my question does not makes any sense as I am not sure if I am interpreting it correctly from my thoughts due to my lack of technical knowledge on this.
If I am using a ...
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Using both raid from card and from motherboard [closed]
I have a motherboard, MSI 890GXM-G65 which support RAID 0/1/5/10. It has 5 SATA 6Gb/s. I'm planning to use this old system for a DIY NAS. I will be keeping a lot of data and mirror them. Currently, I ...
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Mount an external SATA disk on a Virtualbox Guest [migrated]
I have an external EXT3-formatted hard disk attached via SATA to a Windows machine running a Linux Virtualbox guest.
I'd like to mount the disk in the Linux environment, but can't figure out how to ...
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cp to EXT4 through USB cable [closed]
I was backing up my main EXT4 hard drive to another EXT4 hard drive using a USB cable. When the cp command finished, I forgot to unmount the USB drive, and unplugged the USB cable. There was an error ...
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Dell PE 2950 PERC 6/i Controller. How to add 2TB local SATA as a Raw Disk Mapping to ESXi 5.1 VM
Dell PE 2950, PERC 6/i Controller. - ESXi 5.1 installed/Boot from USB drive. 2 x 1 TB SAS drives in RAID 1 - Datastore1.1x 2TB SATA drive set as RAID 0.
We wish to host all our VMs from Datastore1 ...
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HP 4TB SATA Midline in D2600 - what disk make is HP using & why WD RE4 don't work?
Does anyone know what make of disk HP are using in their 4TB SATA Midline & why WD RE4 don't work?
So we use D2600 crates with HP 2TB disks, and just buy WD2003FYYS - pop them in old HP caddies. ...
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How to connect 12 SATA 3 disks to a server with GA-790XTA-UD4 board [closed]
How can I connect 12 SATA 3 disks to a motherboard that has just two SATA 3 connectors. What solution would you recommend?
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Moving Harddisk to other server
I have a situation that required to move 3 SATA hard Disk from a Dell T100 to T350 Server. This was working 90% ok and the Windows 2008 server started fine need only install Drivers.
HD 1Tb ...
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Dell R210 eSata not recognizing Sata Drive
We have a Dell R210 with an external Sata connection.
When connecting the Sata drive through the eSata connection, the server does not recognize the additional drive.
What we have tried:
Verified ...
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RAID card w/1x mini-SAS connector : how do I physically connect 16 disks?
I'm looking at a MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i Sgl card which has a single X4 Mini-SAS SFF8087 connector. As far as I know, such a connector can be expanded to 4 SATA disks. So, I would know how to connect 4 ...
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SATA port multiplier : what do I need? [closed]
I'd like to set up a machine with 10 or 12 discs, but SATA controllers which supports that amount of drives are hard to get for a "reasonable" price. However, I've recently learned about port ...
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replace SCSI raid controller with SATA on SBS 2003
Is it possible to add a second raid card (there is a second pci-x slot) that uses SATA and transfer the current contents of the SCSI card's HDDs to the new larger SATA HDDs
Background: I bought 2 new ...
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Can the Intel C600-series SAS controller RAID SATA drives?
(Sorry if this is off-topic - technically this is a home workstation setting, but is regarding mostly-server technology.)
I have a GA-X79S-UP5-WIFI motherboard and four ST3000DM001 drives, and the ...
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“Can't find root filesystem / error mounting /dev/root” when booting to new kernel [closed]
I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.18-274 to 2.6.39 for some wireless card drivers.
When I boot into the new kernel I get the "Can't find root filesystem / error mounting /dev/root" googling ...
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Motherboard rejects identical hard drive, one works the other doesn't
I have an interesting situation. I have a Dell XS23-SB server that has four blades in it. The blades use Supermicro X7DWT motherboards, and interface with the sata drives through a backplane.
I took ...
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RAID 1 after install and two controllers
I have question regarding RAID 1. Can I setup software RAID 1 after having installed the first drive and setup ubuntu 12? I know that during server install and partitioning I can select RAID and setup ...
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Using SATA drives with SAS shared backplane?
Is it possible to use SATA drives when you have a SAS shared backplane to be able to address the drives?
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SSD for database or webpage files? [closed]
I can have SSD for the mysql data files and system or the website files (.php files, images, video). I can not have both because of the SSD capacity I have.
What would be best, to make Windows 2012 ...
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Abort raid6 expansion on Adaptec 52445 SATA RAID?
I am expanding my raid6 array from 18x2Tb to 20x2Tb disks and after 3 weeks status shows:
Logical device Task:
Logical device : 0
Task ID : 105
Current ...
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Lost RAID partition for no clear reason [closed]
We have some machines with a RAID 1 out of two 2TB hard drives.
Now it has been found to the error that the partition was not recognized from OS (Windows in most cases).
In the configuration menu ...
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Connecting a SAS server drive with SATA USB cable + Converter [closed]
I'd like to connect a SAS drive (ST3600057SS) to my computer via a USB SATA cable combined with a SAS to SATA converter.
This doesn't work and I would like to know why and if there's any way around ...
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Can I use a Smart Array P410 controller on a HP Proliant DL 180 G5 server?
This link says the HP Proliant DL 180 G5 server only supports Smart Array E200, E500, P400 and P800 controllers.
Can I use a Smart Array P410 instead?
Currently the server has only the default ...
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Broadcom HT1100 SATA controller not working properly with 1TB drives
I've been using RHEL distro's for several years and always managed to find the answers until now. I know this is more of a hardware issue, but I've been working on this for over a week and trust Linux ...
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Do SATA disks on an SAS backplane impose cable length limits?
On two Supermicro 847E16-RJBOD1 enclosures, I have trouble accessing SATA disks on the rear backplane with 6gb/s. The only significant difference between rear and front backplanes is total cable ...
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How to arrange 2 SSD with 2 SATA? [closed]
I like to have best io performance as well as good capaciyy and reliability out of a server that hosts a busy forum, which involves loads of static files download. I am wondering what is the best plan ...
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ML 350 additional SATA RAID controller (mirror only)
I have a Proliant ML350 G8 with two SAS raid arrays currently set up - thereby maxing the default P420i raid controller. I need to set up a large video dump space in addition to this existing set-up ...
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K8NDRE motherboard in server fails to complete BIOS load with error 0078
K8NDRE motherboard with 4 sata drives, was running fine. Drives had raid-0 and raid-1 partitions, using mdadm. The onboard raid is disabled. Upon reformatting the drives, setting a new partition ...
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Preventing h/w RAID cards from dropping slow JBOD disks
I'm considering buying a used SAS h/w RAID card for externally attaching HDDs to an HP ProLiant I'm setting up.
However, I only require RAID functionality on some of the drives. Theoretically it ...
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ssd firmware, linux: updating large batch of drives
I was recently hit with a fatal firmware bug that affected dozens of Crucial SSDs deployed in my datacenter. Many of the affected machines use LSI or other proprietary SAS controllers, which Crucial's ...
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Can I reuse HP Proliant SCSI drives in a custom build?
I have an old HP Proliant DL385. Can I use the drives (36.4 GB - 10k, ULTRA320 SCSI) on a custom build, or is the interface a proprietary HP specific one? What support do I need from the motherboard? ...
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3.5" SATAs in an HP DL580 G4
I've been tasked to marry a bunch of 3.5" SATA drives with an HP Proliant DL580 G4 server. Trouble is, this server only takes Small Form Factor harddisks.
How can I make this happen in the most ...
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Is there way to read sectors from SATA drive without ECC correction?
I know, there was such possibility like that in old ATA standards: "READ LONG" command produced LBA sector + ECC payload. sg_read_long supports in in linux, but the command is obsolete for quite a ...
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Does VMWare ESXi 4.1 work with SATA hard drives?
I'm confused about the hard drive requirements to use VMWare ESXi 4.1
I conducted an experiment on an old desktop PC with a SATA hard drive and it couldn't find it.
I'm now ready to go to production ...
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Are there different kinds of Mini SAS to 4x SATA reverse breakout cables?
I have an RPC-4224 case that has 24 bays with 6 Mini SAS ports. I needed a cable to break out one of them into 4 SATA ports, so I went down to my local Fry's Electronics and bought one. The cable came ...
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Deciphering continuing mpt2sas syslog messages
Summary
I have been getting these cryptic messages in syslog since I installed some new hardware and I can't figure out what the problem is, if it's serious, or what to do about it.
They're from the ...
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External 2.5" enclosure SATA power only [closed]
we have these mini-SAS PCIe SATA III controllers. Mini-SAS enclosures seem to run about $500, but I can use a $10 mini-SAS-to-SATA adapter cable so then all I need is an external enclosure that ...
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PERC 6/i will not find my SATA drives
I got a PERC 6/i for our build-system machine running ESXi 5.0update1. The hardware is a MSI X79A-GD65 with Intel X79 chipset, Extreme i7 CPU. I also got a SFF8484->4xSATA cable and connected it to 4 ...
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DL140 G3 HP Embedded SATA RAID Controller, max 750 GB drives. Really?
I have a DL140 G3 and according to HP's documentation [http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12509_na/12509_na.HTML] the max capacity SATA drive I can put on the HP Embedded SATA RAID ...
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ata: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED / hard resetting link
I'm getting a ton of errors like the following during a raid rebuild after replacing a harddisk. SMART values of the new disk look perfectly fine. Are the errors likely to be caused by a faulty disk, ...
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unable to recover data from failed hdd [closed]
my hdd failing (or maybe totally dead)
i've connected the hdd via USB but it doesn't appear in fdisk
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total ...
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How to reduce the SATA link speed of drive in CentOS?
How do I make CentOS run SATA drives at 3Gb/s at boot?
Background:
I'm having an issue with a motherboard that claims to support 6Gb/s SATA transfer speeds, but when using 4 drives on it, in a ...
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HP ProLiant DL380 G4 SATA support?
I'm planning to get a second hand HP Proliant DL380 G4 and setup it as storage server, probably using NexentaStor and setup a ZFS system.
But now I wonder does DL380 G4 can be convert or support SATA ...
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Server crash mount XEN Server sata disk
Our Xen Server crashed and we try to mount the sata disk on an other linx to save the VM's. But unfortunately we are unlucky because the only thing we see is a lot of strange LV mounts.
When we do an ...
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What is the max supported number of SATA devices (using cable adapters) on a Dell SAS 6/iR adapter?
I've got a Dell SAS 6/iR PCI-E adapter. I don't have a multiplier backplane. I'm planning on connecting SATA (non SAS) drives. If I buy cable adapters only (ones that split a SAS connector on the card ...
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SAS vs Near-line SAS vs SATA
I'm unsure about the differences in these storage interfaces. My Dell servers all have SAS RAID controllers in them and they seem to be cross-compatible to an extent.
The Ultra-320 SCSI RAID ...
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KVM: pass-through SATA hot-swap drive?
I have a SATA hot-swap cage in my Linux box. Is it possible to pass-through the SATA disk which is injected in that cage to a KVM guest? I have multiple disks however the SATA port will be always the ...
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High io usage and server hang
I have 3 dedicated server all with software raid-1 sata, centos or cloudlinux and cpanel.
To all of them the last 10 days or so during cpanel incremental backup server has high io usage and hangs out.
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Dell MD1000 and an x4 SAS connector throughput / layout
I'm trying to get my head around how a multi lane x4 SAS connector works in a DAS system such as the Dell MD1000. I understand that each lane is 3Gbps, and that multiple hard drives can share a lane. ...
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HP Proliant DL180 G5 server treats 3-TB SATA disks as 750-GB ones
I have this HP Proliant DL180 G5 server, running with the embedded RAID controller (no Smart Array); with this configuration, it only supports 4 SATA disks. Fine.
The server has 2 250-GB SATA disks; ...
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3ware 8506, Solaris (Nexenta Core) and the tw driver: driver (tw) successfully added to system but failed to attach
I've got a little Nexenta Core box at home that's doing NAS duties. Recently, I bought a second hand 3ware 8506 12-port SATA controller to go with the Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 controller that I already ...
