Interesting hard disk experience.

[Tom Horsley]

A disk (apparently) went really bad - the system would hang
during POST if it was plugged in. So, I got a new disk, got
it formatted and restored from backup, and about the time I
finished that process, it developed the same symptoms :-).

Figuring it couldn't possibly really be bad so quick, I dug out
a new sata cable and plugged it into a different sata connector
on the motherboard, and Presto! The data I just restored
was back, and the hangs went away.

Just for good measure, I reformatted and restored again,
and so far it is still working perfectly well.

Now I feel like I need to plug the original disk back in
to the new cable and connector and see if it is still
there after all.

If the onboard controller is going south, maybe I should
get an add-on sata card and use it instead? (Or maybe it
is time to use this as an excuse to get a new motherboard
and faster CPU :-).

[Matthew Flaschen]

Tom Horsley wrote:
>  A disk (apparently) went really bad - the system would hang
>  during POST if it was plugged in. So, I got a new disk, got
>  it formatted and restored from backup, and about the time I
>  finished that process, it developed the same symptoms :-).
>  
>  Figuring it couldn't possibly really be bad so quick, I dug out
>  a new sata cable and plugged it into a different sata connector
>  on the motherboard, 
You have too many independent variables.  Try the new cable with the old
connector, then the old cable with the new connector.

Matt Flaschen

[Aldo Foot]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley(a)att.net&gt; wrote:
<snip>
>  If the onboard controller is going south, maybe I should
>  get an add-on sata card and use it instead? (Or maybe it
>  is time to use this as an excuse to get a new motherboard
>  and faster CPU :-). 
Hey... why not... let's stimulate the economy. :-)

~af