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Troubleshooting my offline Zpool
It’s a quiet Sunday, and I wasn’t planning on writing an article. There I was copying files and doing some maintenance, and my network drive was offline.
Both 8-port SATA connectors showed up, but I still wondered if the port I was using was somehow at fault (it’s a new motherboard… and wouldn’t make me smile if it was dead already). As I type, I am scrubbing the zpool…but I am also going to order a new SATA power cable as I can’t really expect a ‘cable-jiggle’ to be a good long-term solution. The BETTER news is that by systematically checking out the potential problems, I have a likely root-cause and a short-term fix (‘jiggling power leads’).
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