Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> > - do not mix ata-66 with ata-100
> > - do not mix ata-100 with ata-133
>
> Hmmm, OK. Is it that fragile...?
yup ...
hook up a scope to the cables and signals and you can see
all the retry's that would otherwise go un-noticed
> > i'd try a different ( new ) power supply
>
> Hmmm, ok. May I ask why?
power supplies run hot
when things run hot... things will die
- capacitors and inductors and transistors die over time
it will still marginally work, like you're seeing
and during bootup, when the most current is needed, it may not be
able to keep it at +5.00V and +3.300V and +12.000V for the first
0-5 seconds when its sending out 50-100amps in a giant spike
> Linus' backup strategy, and allthough it would be painful to download
> all that again,
yeah ... its a good strategy ... exabytes of backup storage .. for free
c ya
alvin
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