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  ot: sata cables

  Posted by Leslie Wand on June 24, 2006 at 4:01 am

  hi one and all,

  just had another ‘non-system disk’ startup error. had this a few weeks back, and checking the event log, found parity problems, etc., basically, all down to ‘bad’ cable. simple solution is to disconnect, reconnect hd cables. anyone finding this problem with sata cables? any suggestions as to good brand to buy?

  leslie

  James_j replied 19 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Stephen Mann

  June 24, 2006 at 5:12 am

  The SATA spec changed about a year ago to a locking connector for this very reason, but I don’t think they is backwards compatible.

  Stephen Mann,
  MannMade Digital Video,
  San Jose, CA
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  James_j

  June 26, 2006 at 2:47 pm

  I dunno, but I recently built a new workstation with a SATA system drive that absolutely _refused_ to perform up to speed.

  I hadn’t heard about SATA cables being flaky, now I wish I’d tried a few others. I have yet to receive a locking cable. Anyway, ultimately I stuck an old EIDE drive in it to get it working.

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