Re: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 00:50, Erik Ohrnberger wrote:
>Hi There!
>	Yea, I thought that it might be power related as well, so I moved
>1/2 of the drives from the 500 Watt power supply onto a separate one,
> and it did not change any of the symptoms.  So I think that it's been
> ruled out.
>
>	Thanks,
>		Erik.

Cable lengths can be a bear too, particularly if the drive set as master 
is NOT on the end connector of the cable.

>> Hello,
>>
>> Erik Ohrnberger wrote:
>> > Earlier this year, when I started putting it together, I
>>
>> gathered my
>>
>> > hardware.  A decent 2 GHz Athlon system with 512 MB RAM,
>>
>> DVD drive, a
>>
>> > 40 GB system drive, and a 500 Watt power supply.  Then I started
>> > adding hard disks.  To date, I've got 5 80 GB PATA, 2 200
>>
>> GB PATA, and 1 60 GB PATA.
>>
>> That's 9 hard drives.  How did you hook up your power supply?
>>  My dual-rail 450w PS has a lot of problem driving 9 drives
>> no matter how I hook it up while my 350w power supply can
>> happily handle the load.  I suspect it's because how the
>> separate 12v rails are configured in the PS.
>>
>> It's nothing concrete but I wanna rule PS issue first.  If
>> you've got an extra power supply (buy cheap 350w one if you
>> don't have one), hook half of the drives to it and see what
>> happens.  Using PS without motherboard is easy.  Just ask google.
>>
>> Happy holidays.
>>
>> --
>> tejun
>
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