SATA Hard Drives

[Chris Rees]

2008/6/22 Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com>:
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Chris Rees <utisoft at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>
> AHCI, not AHTI
> Advanced Host Controller Interface
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface
>
> but I think it's also a good idea to test with a new SATA data cable, or
> even a power SATA cable too.
>
> cheers

Making assumptions here, but I believe that if it were the power cable
at fault, the problems would have been fixed when the power source was
changed from SATA to Molex. The temporary nature of the fix suggests
that you either jigged the data cable or removed it to get at the
power cable, as you describe fixing the problems.

That said, IF a new data cable doesn't fix it, try a power cable, but
don't buy one until you've tried the data cable.

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