01-08-2020, 07:23 AM
(01-05-2020, 11:07 AM)dponzone Wrote: Like others, I switched to a Marvell-based SATA card, and the issues are gone even at 3Gbps or 6Gbps.
I guess some ASM-based cards are crappy (jumpers related ?).
If the card is with big ugly standard jumpers at SATA differential signal path then yes. On practice it depends. Mine ASMedia-based Pine64 supplied card is working flawlessly with two different drives, one HGST, another Seagate. Sure there are existing another drives that will fail to operate stable with certain card. Just a matter of drive's SATA interface signal compensation capabilities. Some drives can compensate the distortions of bad SATA path, some can not.