Hello Everybody,
I’m having problem booting with my Revodrive 3 X2 and I hope someone could help me.
TL;DR:
My Revodrive takes about 10 min. While trying to initialize, a message with "PD Signature not detected" is shown, "Initializing Drive..." show 'FAILED' and the card don’t work anymore. I want to know how to corret this problem!
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Long history:
I have this card since December 2011 and hasn’t have any problem until now. Every time I boot the computer, the Revodrive stay a long time in “Initializing Drive…” state (about 10 min.). In meanwhile while initializing, the main IC (with the heat sink) starts to get very hot.
After 10 min. initializing it shows a ‘PD Signature Not Detected’; FAILED for "Initializing Drive...", ‘OK’ for the card BIOS and the boot goes on. In the next step, it shows me 60GB of memory (instead of 240). The card is shown at the BIOS as a disk but I can’t boot to the OS installed on it anymore. (Images at the end)
To diagnose the problem I booted into an Ubuntu distro using USB. After doing some research I’ve found that I can see the drive at /dev and it’s shown like 3 separate drives with 60GB each, like detailed at the fdisk -l (/dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, and /dev/sdd)
I’ve installed SSD Guru from OCZ site on Ubuntu and the software identify, again, 3 60GB separated drives. Additionnaly, all SMART information are ok and the software shows 100% health for the drives. (Images at the end)
I've also tryied to use a bootable SSDGuru provided by OCZ, but the program can't detect the Revodrive.
So, considering this situation, I presume that the Revodirve is using 4 60GB memory arrays and using RAID to get de 240 GB. Since I can’t see 1 of those 4 disks I’m considering that something is wrong with one of the memory arrays and that’s leading to the general fault.
I have done some cleaning on the board, separating the 2 attached arrays from the mainboard, removing the heat sink and cleaning everything very carefully with isopropyl alcohol. Used a good thermal paste and reattached the heat sink.
The problem didn’t go away.
I think that this cleaning wasn’t enough, and I wasn’t able to find any physical problems at the line card.
So, my question is, how do I know which memory array is damaged and where to check for physical problems on the board to find the main cause? Has anyone had a similar problem? Can anybody point me other places and things to look?
Thanks in advance for help!!
Images, Logs, and Support File here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sa72ftbugxrcijs/Files.zip?dl=0