From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 14:30:39 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 B70E116A4DA for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:30:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4C243D53 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:30:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so1965539uge for ; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:30:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IkQavQtjTlq4BfegUyryV791wWD+X/jKRhm/LYJ9PFju1HUQ280ZZBsDI/xZ4LT2ETm4L9L0TEQCFTBxZ2BpmGGlFbLu82VTigScfWS8iz1pxWWUi0wLRY9P/ELiTy4TbHOA6C5r8dbPQR7XeE5Mj4iDDFAqNt8ZHmKe4DL25Tg= Received: by 10.67.29.12 with SMTP id g12mr1136343ugj; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.86.18 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20608020730p3a5c809cs828d72825d8487dc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:30:37 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44D06B87.22687.1E831B5F@heli.mikestammer.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44D06B87.22687.1E831B5F@heli.mikestammer.com> 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 14:30:39 -0000 I have SATA one cables/connectors, and they do come loose when fiddling in the case, but otherwise they are fine (when the case is closed and the machine is running. However, I do prefer the locking cables and jacks in SATA II. You might look at Newegg as your vendor, I believe I saw some there: http://www.newegg.com. Alternatively, I got some SATAII cables from, oddly enough, Microcenter, that were good priced and worked well. -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Eric wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >