SATA Hard Drives

Chris Rees utisoft at googlemail.com
Sun Jun 22 17:46:58 UTC 2008


2008/6/22 Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>:
> Chris Rees wrote:
>>>
>>> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:33:23 -0600
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> Use a decent cable? Try replacing it, I'll post you one if you want, I
>> have thousands.
>>
>> Seriously, I will if you want one :)
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>
>   I think yours is the right idea. I will try to find one at the local
> stores. They should not be expensive.
>
>
> Karl
>
>
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Don't pay more than € 5-7 for one though :D

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