SATA Hard Drives

[Karl Larsen]

Victor Padro wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Qiuli Han <ivyharry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> i guess the real answer for you question ( not the problem) is buy a hard
>> drive other than Hitachi
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>    I have this computer on a SATA hard drive and it keeps failing. The
>>> failure is in the data cable or the power cable and I can't tell for
>>> sure which is bad. I am now using the old style power because the SATA
>>> drive has this still. That stopped the failures for awhile.
>>>
>>>    But this Sunday I booted up and got an error that has nothing to do
>>> with a hard drive failure, but in an hour the screen lost all colors and
>>> even the shapes of items on the screen were odd. I re-booted and it
>>> would not reboot. I had to  turn off the computer with the power switch.
>>> Then tried to come back up and it would not boot.
>>>
>>>     I looked at the BIOS and it said NO hard drives! Turned off the
>>> computer and pulled off the cover a giggled the two ends of the data
>>> cable. Turned it on and it booted right up. It looks normal again.
>>>
>>>    I know a lot of people are using SATA drives now. How did you get
>>> them to work in a reliable way?
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
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> use AHCI if the BIOS supports it
>
>   
    The hard drive is a Western Digital, or it says it is. It could be 
Hitachi with that man on it I suppose.

What is AHTI?

Karl


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