| SATA cables or should I just slit my wrists? [message #78321] |
Sat, 13 January 2007 23:46  |
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Deej [4]
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Registered: January 2007
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Well.........****!!! I was noodling around with a PCI card on the MOBO of my
paris rig (it was turned off) and noticed that one of my SATA cables was a
bit stressed so I unplugged it, straightened it and then plugged it back in.
All hell has broken loose with my RAID array. I could not even run Ghost
(BSOD related to the Promise raid driver being less-than-equal. I finally
unplugged the SATA drives, and was able to boot into Ghost, restore a recent
drive image, then before I rebooted, I plugged the SATA cables back in.
I got a message that my RAID array was hosed so I deleted it and then
rebuilt it. Everything worked and life was good for about an hour. I turned
my machine off, then a couple of hours later, I rebooted and the same thing
happened but now I can't get the RAID array to work at all and my system
drive shows to be unbootable.
I'm wondering if this could be faulty SATA cables. Both cables I'm using
were bent over double back before I had my EDS cards in a Magma because of
the vicinity of the SATA port locations. Believe me, I've tried everything
else imaginable. I've got one new SATA cable here and I have switched it
around between the two used cables but no luck. Both SATA drives do appear
in the RAID setup. They just can't be arrayed properly.
Guess I'll reformat my boot drive tomorrow and reload Windows ME and Paris.
That's about all I use on this machine anyway (sigh)
Luckily I have my audio files backed up because this RAID POS was my audio
drive. Nothing lost except for a couple of .ppj's that aren't important.
Even if it turns out to be a bad cable, I think I'll shitcan this RAID stuff
and just get myself a nice big 7200 for audio.
RAID=unnecessary PITA. IMO.
Deej
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