From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 02:36:08 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 D52F916A4DE for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 02:36:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drumslayer2@yahoo.com) Received: from web34514.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34514.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.178.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A7CD43D46 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 02:36:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drumslayer2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 12814 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Aug 2006 02:36:08 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=S410DgWVir/DMCsYsfhfubEi+kYAff0ER+qPsHw0osQCiW5MDC8nPCnX3Nlw5uld3prN9E2RNWFDMpO3gavMXRGMapFNg8i/qYDO+E0EULmYgm3Zvr61XFrYVBiXDDfMjcTA3SfwZRA+xUGNG5VsoQjzQBA2UAohDPIHjql1ETI= ; Message-ID: <20060802023608.12812.qmail@web34514.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.112.21.27] by web34514.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:36:07 PDT Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 19:36:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "N. Harrington" To: jdow , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <034901c6b5ce$f05a2d90$0225a8c0@Wednesday> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: 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 02:36:08 -0000 --- jdow wrote: > From: "Nikolas Britton" > > > 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. > > First google hit "SATA-II cable specification": > http://www.satacable.com/ > > Second google site hit > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2076134&CatId=84 > > I've done business with Tiger Direct. They were > prompt for delivery. > Searching for things on their site was annoying, > though. > > Adding "site:newegg" to the search gives: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812207001 > and > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812162003 > > First has a right angle connector. > > You were saying? > {^_^} Well, according to all this, my nice new 3-ware 9550SX SATA II card has SATA I connectors and came with SATA I cables. That seems, well, disapointing and odd. Nicole The Large Print Giveth And The Small Print Taketh Away -- Anon __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com