2-15 and 2-27 having hard drive issues
June 30, 2014by admin
I may just have a lot of bad hard drives, or they may have backplane issues… I saw this with compute-2-1 at some point, and I don’t remember the exact resolution… I’ll go read that post and see if I blogged about it. At this point, after replacing the hard drives multiple times and seeing different kinds of errors (can’t find the hard drive at all, then loses communication in the middle of an install and resets multiple times), I’ve got a couple of hard drives in there that are working, but I still think it might be a physical backplane connectivity issue…
June 30th, 2014 at 3:07 pm
Nope – just lots of bad hard drives. Whatever, they were used and really old and gotten from IT because they were tossing them. Makes sense I guess 🙂
August 25th, 2014 at 12:46 pm
Well, it stopped working, again, on compute-2-27, and I couldn’t get it to work even with known good hard drives. Whatever. I put a Mushkin 32GB tiny little USB 3.0 stick on there as the root hard drive. Thanks Rae!
March 9th, 2015 at 2:14 pm
compute-2-27’s Mushkin USB stick died. Dead dead dead. I replaced it with a USB hard drive. Unfortunately said USB hard drive requires two USB connections for power, so no mouse/keyboard at the same time without a hub. Heh. A bit janky.
June 9th, 2015 at 1:04 pm
I pulled the node out of the chassis and changed which SATA port on the motherboard the cable was plugged into. Fixed!
July 30th, 2015 at 6:28 am
…and now it seems to be having hard drive issues again. I’ll check it out later today.
July 30th, 2015 at 7:53 am
Replaced hard drive, installing away. The old one had “read error” on boot, every time.