From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 19 18:06:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A02AD16A468 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:06:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD1A13C4B6 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:06:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6JI6Y4J049265; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:06:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070719130457.024c2fa0@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:05:58 -0500 To: Harry Newton , "Steve Franks" From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <87hco0fgbx.fsf@vm.yewbarrow.net> References: <539c60b90707190958h37e21843me437bc872030de4@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070719120808.023ee4a0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <539c60b90707191026t2a87d9a8p38be8fc32b5fd829@mail.gmail.com> <87hco0fgbx.fsf@vm.yewbarrow.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata: setfeatures settransfermode taskqueue timeout 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: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:06:56 -0000 At 12:34 PM 7/19/2007, Harry Newton wrote: >Steve > >Check your cables: I had similar sporadic failures which were caused >by a SATA cable that didn't seat well into the sockets on the board >and drive. When I replaced the cable with a better one with a spring >clip the failures stopped. > > - Harry My most recent SATA problems were cables too. Not sure why the cables went bad, but the drives would just detach on the old cables. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.