Re: [CentOS] Any experiences with newer WD Red drives?

On 3/1/2016 9:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:

However, the latest C7 server I built, ran into problems with them on on a Intel C236 board (SuperMicro X11SSH) with tons of "ata bus error write fpdma queued". Googling on it threw up old suggestions to limit SATA link speed to 1.5Gbps using libata.force boot options and/or noncq. Lowering the link speed helped to reduce the frequency of the errors (from not getting a smartctl output to getting a complete listing within 2 tries).

any chance your SATA cables aren't up to SATA3 (6gbps) performance levels ?

the C236 chipset is the server version of the Z170, latest Skylake family chipset.