Hard to find hardware issue: SATA lost connection

jgreco

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The original setup involved some ASMedia SATA controllers, and I one of those seems to have a bad link, too.
Having those issues in overlay and the SATA power connector sometimes working and sometimes not - got me epically confused.

Two things working in combination against you can be really frustrating, especially with intermittent issues. Here in the shop, we might have caught this by putting a scope to tap on the power at the drives, watching for the brownout, but that is its own special kind of hell to debug, when cabling is generally so cheap. Easier to replace all the cabling and if it fixes it, discard all the old cabling.

In any case, great to hear it's resolved! I had a very strong feeling it was a brownout of some sort.
 

pschatz100

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Let's hope the issues are resolved. Intermittent power problems can be especially challenging.

Good luck.
 
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