Stranded Camel
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My motherboard (full info in sig below) has only 6 SATA ports and I need 11. I've been using an Ableconn PEX10-SAT PCIe 2.0 to SATA III card for the 5 additional SATA ports I need, but I've tracked various problems with drives spontaneously dropping out of pools and CAM timeout errors down to this card. The errors occur mainly under heavy load, FWIW. Here's the latest one:
I obviously can't go on like this, but I don't know exactly what I can replace the Ableconn card with. I see things about LSI cards and expander cables here, but I don't know the first thing about them,.
Would this card be appropriate, and would it work with my motherboard (an MSI H270 PC MATE MS-7A72, which among others has a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot plus a slot simply referred to as "PCI1", while the LSI card requires an "x8 PCI Slot"). And is the card compatible with 10 TB drives (I haven't been able to find that information?
And would two of these cables be the right choice?
Thanks in advance.
Code:
dmesg | grep -e ada11 ada11: Serial Number XXXXXXXX ada11: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada11: Command Queueing enabled ada11: 9537536MB (19532873728 512 byte sectors) (ada11:ahcich28:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 08 60 fe 3f 40 8c 04 00 00 00 00 (ada11:ahcich28:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout (ada11:ahcich28:0:0:0): Retrying command ada11 at ahcich28 bus 0 scbus24 target 0 lun 0 ada11: <ZZ00000000000-ZZZZZZ SC60> s/n XXXXXXXX detached GEOM_MIRROR: Device swap0: provider ada11p1 disconnected. (ada11:ahcich28:0:0:0): Periph destroyed ada11 at ahcich28 bus 0 scbus24 target 0 lun 0 ada11: <ZZ00000000000-ZZZZZZ SC60> ACS-3 ATA SATA 3.x device ada11: Serial Number XXXXXXXX ada11: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada11: Command Queueing enabled ada11: 9537536MB (19532873728 512 byte sectors)
I obviously can't go on like this, but I don't know exactly what I can replace the Ableconn card with. I see things about LSI cards and expander cables here, but I don't know the first thing about them,.
Would this card be appropriate, and would it work with my motherboard (an MSI H270 PC MATE MS-7A72, which among others has a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot plus a slot simply referred to as "PCI1", while the LSI card requires an "x8 PCI Slot"). And is the card compatible with 10 TB drives (I haven't been able to find that information?
And would two of these cables be the right choice?
Thanks in advance.
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