Rockpro64 Sata Card kills itself

[aldrick]

Hey Guys,

I think I am having a similar issue with RockPRO64, SATA card similar to the Pine64 one (same chipset, https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B018XCUPDS) and 12V 5A PSU.
First, I was unable to have 2 HD (HGST 8TB) powered at the same time.
At least one was not spinning normally (looping clicking sound) even when they are not even connected to the SATA cable. So it seems to me the 5A PSU is not delivering enough power.
With only one HD, it seems to work fine, but when I try to mkfs the HD:

Dec 25 14:15:16 rockpro64 kernel: [  317.380316] ata2.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Dec 25 14:15:16 rockpro64 kernel: [  317.380813] ata2.00: cmd 61/a8:00:c0:03:10/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 688128 out
Dec 25 14:15:16 rockpro64 kernel: [  317.380813]          res 40/00:00:c0:03:18/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Dec 25 14:15:16 rockpro64 kernel: [  317.382250] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
Dec 25 14:15:16 rockpro64 kernel: [  317.382661] ata2.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
Dec 25 14:15:16 rockpro64 kernel: [  317.383164] ata2.00: cmd 61/a8:08:68:04:10/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 688128 out
Dec 25 14:15:16 rockpro64 kernel: [  317.383164]          res 40/00:00:c0:03:18/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
Dec 25 14:15:16 rockpro64 kernel: [  317.384603] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
Dec 25 14:15:16 rockpro64 kernel: [  317.384952] ata2.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED

and tons of lines like that:

Dec 25 14:16:51 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.805743] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] tag#29 CDB: opcode=0x2a 2a 00 2c 60 03 c0 00 00 a8 00
Dec 25 14:16:51 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.805746] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 5955919360
Dec 25 14:16:51 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.806905] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 5955920704
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.956276] buffer_io_error: 817539 callbacks suppressed
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.958276] Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 747113503, lost async page write
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.960529] Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 747113504, lost async page write
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.962635] Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 747113505, lost async page write
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.964722] Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 747113506, lost async page write
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.966872] Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 747113507, lost async page write
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.968914] Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 747113508, lost async page write
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.971019] Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 747113509, lost async page write
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.972962] Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 747113510, lost async page write
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.975065] Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 747113511, lost async page write
Dec 25 14:16:52 rockpro64 kernel: [  412.977200] Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 747113512, lost async page write
Dec 25 14:16:56 rockpro64 kernel: [  417.796494] scsi_io_completion: 4927 callbacks suppressed

I managed to solve the clicking sound with 2 HD by using another 4.2A PSU.

This makes me thing the 5A PSU is crap, and that my 4.2A is better but not powerful enough.
This would confirm that a 7.5A PSU is required to power the board with 2 7200rpm HD.

Any progress on that ?

Thank you

Hello,

Since I've changed with a 7.5A PSU, I very rarely have the errors.
I've added a 240G SSD with my 4T HDD for 1 week: no problem at all.

I'll keep you in touch in few weeks but for now this problem seems ok.