Hardware Hates Me

So, yes, given the issues with Avoriaz being down I thought I’d buy a new pair of disks and a controller, install a new OS and swap the lot. Then I can bring back the old RAID for data recovery. A fine plan, but something about the two new SATA disks or the SATA controller isnt happy and I get media errors all over the shop. One disk errors more than the other, but they both error a lot and on both SATA links. I suspect the cheap shite Silicon Image 3112A controller is a PoS. I have ordered a new Promise jobbie from span.com (why does no one else sell Promise STS controllers?) so hopefully, some day soon, I’ll have hardware to take down to London to get Avoriaz back on-line with! Crossed fingers all around please!