[Gllug] SATA controller

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- Tethys wrote:
> Grrr... sometimes I hate the IT industry. Why do we keep making the
> same mistakes over and over again? Why can I not take a SATA 3Gb/s
> drive and plug it into a motherboard that only supports SATA 1.5Gb/s?
> I mean come on... I still have ancient SCSI hardware that just works
> with newer, faster SCSI controllers. Was it that hard to do the same
> for SATA? I know in theory it's meant to be backwardly compatible, but
> in the real world, it just isn't :-(
>
> So anyway, I had a couple of hard drives die over the weekend. Eeek.
> Different manufacturers, so no bad batch problems. This seemed a
> little suspicious to me. I know that drives do just fail, and it could
> have been coincidence. But this machine has been sat in the same
> location for 5+ years now, with no changes in environmental
> conditions. To have 2 drives fail within 24 hours? Both disks are
> connected to the same controller, which makes me wonder if that's
> where the fault lies. This is reinforced by the fact that one of the
> drives seems to work perfectly when connected to the motherboard (the
> other one isn't found due to the above mentioned SATA backward
> compatibility problems, and the new drive I just bought is also not
> found when connected to the motherboard).
>
> After connecting the new drive and a tediously long time restoring
> from backup, I'm now thinking of getting a new SATA controller, just
> to rule it out as a cause for the problems I've been having. Does
> anyone have any recommendations? I'm looking at the Promise SATA300
> TX4. Anything else I should be considering? I don't need RAID. I do
> that in software. I just need a way to connect a bunch of drives up
> (ideally 4).
>
> Tet
>
>   


I'd also try to rule out the power supply, I had very similar drive
issues a few years ago that I eventually traced back to an ailing PSU.


Roger.
Roger.
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