Question re sata cables

[Brian Wootton]

On 06/10/10 06:18, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I have a pretty expensive ASUS M2N-SLA Deluxe motherboard, and I am having
> lots of log messages from the sata stuff, disconnects and reconnects/resets
> virtually anytime the cat walks by.  Reaching in and just touching any of
> the cables will fill a couple pages of the messages log.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this, and if so where did you obtain the
> replacement cables that stopped this particular PITA.  Or, are we stuck
> with it till the "Next Great Thing"(TM) comes out?
>
> Thanks all.
>
>    
I bought an amd64 Asus motherboard, and after a couple of months I
started to get bunches of of error messages, random reboots and other
hiccups, I could generate these just by banging the desktop enclosure
I narrowed this down to tapping the HDD with a finger-nail. I took the
drive out and had it tested in the workshop where I bought it and they
gave me a new drive and cable set - haven't had any trouble since. The
w/shop body just said the HDD failed their tests - wouldn't/couldn't tell
me if it was HDD or cables. Anyway I changed the lot - still under warranty
so didn't cost me nuffin' - except the time to re-install the OS of course.
I've got 4 SATA channels on my motherboard, I tried all 4 with the old HDD
and cables and got nowhere - have you tried a different one?
brian