Questions tagged [sata]
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 advantages over the older parallel ATA (PATA) interface.
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Your experience with JBOD "raw" SATA setup
I need a cheap setup to store historic snapshots of a dataset in the 100-200GB range. These will see little use, but need to be kept online for some time (shared by Samba). The box housing the dataset ...
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IBM x3650 M1 SATA support up to 2 Tb
I have an IBM x3650 (M1 [i think because of DDR2 rams]), an as i know it only support SATA hard drvies only up to 1 Tb.
Is there any RAID controller firmware/BIOS update which can give the server 2 ...
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Mount dell perc (megaraid) partitions on linux box without hardware raid
I have sata hard disk extracted from Dell server with perc 5i.
I need to save data on another linux box, without hardware raid.
Is it possible? How?
I know there are two partitions on this disk, but ...
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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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Same hard drive problems in dmesg on several servers
We have a couple of these SuperMicro MicroCloud units.
In total we've got 16 servers (2x8) which all randomly spew these messages in dmesg:
[4661350.802707] ata2.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA ...
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Why my SSDs are in /dev/hdx instead of /dev/sdx on CentOS 5.9?
I have two SSDs Kingston SH103S3240G plugged on SATA ports of my Intel Server Board S3000AH.
The SSDs apear like a PATA device (hdx instead of sdx) on my CentOS 5.9.
I'm having problems related to ...
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How could all of my hard drives fail at once? [closed]
I have an Ubuntu 13.04 server. Today I found the box had crashed. I restarted it, and now every single hard drive's partition table is missing. (1 SSD for /boot, /, and 3 2TB drives for RAID).
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How does plugging in a SATA drive to an SAS backplane affect maximum cable length?
The limit on SATA cable length is 1m, whereas the limit on SAS cable length is 10m. When using a backplane which advertises support for SAS and SATA, with a SAS RAID controller and one SATA drive, ...
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Are SATA 1, 2 and 3 cables interchangeable?
I've got an older SATA drive (not sure if it's SATA 1 or 2). Same size plug as my new SATA 3 M/B.
Are the cables interchangeable?
Any decrease in performance from using a "lower" cable?
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What are the merits of SAS vs SATA drives? [closed]
What are the merits of buying SAS drives over SATA drives, or vice versa?
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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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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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Connecting our first tape drive (SAS) to SATA bus
Our small team is considering buying our first tape drive for backups. However, we are still lacking serious enterprise-grade servers and have to rely temporarily on SATA drives in our rigs. Cost ...
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Upgrading server motherboard while maintaining 12 SATA ports
My office has been using a FreeNAS server that was built with desktop hardware. We use it for storing RAW photos (~50mb each). We have 3 workstations that access (browse, retouch, save) the files ...
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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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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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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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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:
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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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Solaris: detect hotswap SATA disk insert
What's the method used on Solaris to get the system to rescan for new disks that have been hot-plugged on a SATA controller?
I've got an HP X1600 NAS which had 9 drives configred in a ZFS pool. I've ...
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Large SATA hard drive for Intellistation A Pro 6217
I posted this question to the IBM forums, but got no response! I'm hoping someone here will be able to help.
I have recently become the lucky new owner of an Intellistation A Pro 6217. I would like ...
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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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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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Nearline SAS on SATA controllers
I know that SAS drives cannot operate on a SATA controller.
I know that SATA drives can operate on a SAS controller.
But can Near-Line SAS drives, being SATA drives with a SAS controller, be used on
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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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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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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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SCSI vs SATA? Is SCSI "actually" better? [closed]
Well, I was talking with a guy about servers the other day. I was a bit shocked whenever I asked him if there was any significant difference between SCSI and SATA and why he always uses SCSI. (note, I'...
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Dell R510 backplane/LSI RAID card
I've been tasked to price up and order a new server. My plans are for a Dell Poweredge R510 with the 8 HDD option, an LSI 9265-8i RAID card, two Dell 600GB 15k 3.5" SAS drives in RAID 1, and six Intel ...
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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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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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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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SAS to SATA adapter?
Is it possible to have a SAS to SATA.
e.g the server has SAS onboard, and I want to use SATA drives instead of the SAS ones (cheaper and easier to source here in Australia).
They have cables on this ...
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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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SATA hdd errors
I have one server with WDC WD3202ABYS ... There are 100 virtual hosts. Server is working about 5 years and in this time period I have change 4 disks. All with same reason: sata error. The last one:
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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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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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Is there an Emergency Rescue Disc (ERD) that allows for slipstreaming SATA drivers?
I have a computer at work that was baselined with the DISA Gold Disc, to include disabling the built-in admin account and setting its password to something unknown. So, while trying to use the repair ...
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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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IDE compatability with SATA image
We had an old CNC machine's hard-drive fail recently. The hard-drive is an old 1275MB IDE (Seagate) and there were defiantly bad sectors on it. I was able to image the contents of the drive onto a ...
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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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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 ...