From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 01:35:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C8616A4DA for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 01:35:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A245143D5D for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 01:35:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so469026nfc for ; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:35:03 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PB8uNWtH4A0ChWQKg41UCsBzCcGB4WiqsYlFCWTZpiCjKMZMcd2iOy+LM0Q+K0vg9oI7Cuw2KcSDSczs6EvbWO6aNWY7nt6sBUWrpZUow1/sawyiqWIcRpGkB5+IkZbZSw/JQcWDmT/Vwjln1WLSWO9sx4+iY+L5qOQKeIX5tvw= Received: by 10.78.175.14 with SMTP id x14mr117573hue; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.11 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:35:03 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Jonathan Horne" In-Reply-To: <200608012005.23994.freebsd@dfwlp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200608012005.23994.freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Cables Suck! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:35:06 -0000 On 8/1/06, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Tuesday 01 August 2006 19:23, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 > > times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other > > stupid problem with the cables. > > > > I need a vendor that has high quality latching SATA-II cables. Also... > > what can we do with the old cables to fix them... super glue them > > on?... Here's a question... Are all SATA cables rated for SATA-II? > > I've never seen a definitive answer to this question and newegg.com > > does not sells "SATA-II" cables... Also does the spec call for > > shielded cables? > > > > frustrated, need a place to unload.... thanks. > > when i built my computer 2 years ago, i went for sata drives for the first > time. my intial impression was "wow... is that actually going to stay > connected?" > Now that I've rationally thought about it, it's possible the backplane is flaky... I still think the cable connectors are to loose. Maybe I've been jaded by a bad batch of cables and a flaky backplane. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/