From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 14:08:50 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 4AF4316A4DA for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:08:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp108.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp108.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AF6F43D5D for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:08:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 13214 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2006 14:08:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gondolin.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@75.3.42.185 with login) by smtp108.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Aug 2006 14:08:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54AEEEB for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:08:27 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from gondolin.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UDlbe89t-uBN for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:08:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [10.40.10.117] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F8404A for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:08:24 -0500 (CDT) From: "Eric" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:08:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <44D06B87.22687.1E831B5F@heli.mikestammer.com> Priority: normal In-reply-to: References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 14:08:50 -0000 On 1 Aug 2006 at 17:23, 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. > > I think Western Digital makes securelock cables that snap in place pretty well. might be worth a look. Eric