Hate SATA hard drives

Siggy Brentrup ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de
Sun Aug 30 05:39:58 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 22:00 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:39:04PM -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > 	My computer started to look odd. Things were fading out. I decided to 
> > reboot. It didn't work, but complained about many bad sectors. I turned 
> > it off.
> > 
> > 	When I turned it on the computer would not boot, didn't even get to a 
> > grub list. So turned it off again and pulled off the top and one side of 
> > my computer. The hard drive looked fine but I pulled the red cable off 
> > and put it back on. Then unplugged it from the mother board and then 
> > back in.
> > 
> > 	Put the computer back together and it is working fine again!
> 
> And this is the fault of the SATA drive?

Nope, it's OP's fault who should go and get a live (boast on inner
parties or BBQs) instead of telling boring stories about his own daily
(mis-)?experiences with computers here.

my 2ยข
  Siggy

> "If you think you're getting free lunch,
>  check the price of the beer"
+1 in view of all those gmail.com addresses :)
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