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I have an eVGA 680i SLI motherboard that has sat around for a while after I stopped using it because it seemed to be "killing" hard drives left and right.
Is there anyway I can test the SATA controller to see if it functions correctly?
What the heck would cause the SATA controller to kill disks?
As far as the drives, they were mixed. The first one I think lasted 2 years it was a Seagate 7200.11.
I tested that drive on another machine and was truly dead (bad pick?). The next one was a drive of the same model purchased around the same time, it just sat in the box though. Dead with in 6 months.
Then I had a Western Digital Caviar Green, it "died", I plugged it into another computer and it has worked flawless ever since. Before all of those drives, I did have some "questionable" WD2500s which seems to fail when I used the hostRAID which is nforce based.
Please provide us more details. How did the hard drives die? How many? Were the drives the same age, or were some new? – Breakthrough – 2011-08-22T17:41:34.360
You can always just get a new controller card for it and not use the on-board SATA. I know it doesn't actually confirm or deny a problem with the board, but it is a simple and relatively cheap work around if you still want to use the board. – MaQleod – 2011-08-22T17:43:15.287
@MaQleod Normally that is what I would do, I have another mobo. The reason I am want to bring this back from the dead is it has 6 SATA ports. I am working on a homebrew iSCSI target for a project and I need exactly 6 ports. – ianc1215 – 2011-08-22T17:47:28.657
Try this; disable on board SATA then use an PCI card SATA and see what that does with one of your died drives. – guest – 2013-12-06T16:41:28.877