On 02.02.15 11:08, Gene Heskett wrote: > What I think is happening is yet another session of crap sata cables. You > cannot buy a sata cable that doesn't have the hot red colored plastic. and > that crap is a 3 year time bomb, something in THAT red die eats the copper > up, and I have been pouring the copper out of the end of it as a fine red > dust where there used to be a conductive wire ever since the CB Radio > makers found the J.A.Pan mic cables were cheaper, in about 1970. And I > still have 2 of them in this system. I also have 3 of the red ones that > have failed hanging on a drawer knob behind me. Reminders to never ever > buy the red ones.
Oh-oh, they're everywhere, Gene, even down under. A couple I just bought on the interweb arrived today ... and they're lurid red, made in China. I'll put an entry in my ~/calendar file to give an annual reminder, then see how long they last. Thanks for the heads-up! (The only nuisance is that I use "calendar -l7 -f ~/calendar" to remind me for a week before a birthday. Might need a line or two of awk in between, to avoid the repeat on non-critical reminders.) Erik -- Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
