On Sunday 08 October 2017 01:34:58 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 03.01.12 23:32, gene heskett wrote: > > But I have to get rid of the rest of those red sata cables. That > > red die eats the copper wire inside the cable like it was battery > > acid, and has been doing that to cables around me since the rollover > > to the '70's took all that cable manufacturing first to the J. A. > > Pan company and eventually to China. 3 years and the copper in a > > wire with that insulation can be shook out of the end of the > > insulation as brown dust. I have 5 dead sata cables hanging on a > > drawer knob behind me just to keep me reminded, and I grab cables of > > other colors when I can just so I have spares on hand. > > Many thanks Gene, for that heads up back in 2012. I've just come back > from nearly a fortnight on the farm, and my desk machine locked up in > the middle of reading mail, then wouldn't boot, despite several > attempts. Fortunately the side's off, so I could see two SATA cables > in your least favourite colour, and the wet RAM functioned well enough > to recall your warning. Swapped the cable with a black one, and it > came up faster than it's done in a while. > > My self-destructing red SATA cables lasted 31 months,
About par for those it seems. > so not quite 3 > years - but we've just had a record warm winter, and the summers are > each a new record, so Arrhenius has to be allowed for, I figure. I take it that this Arrhenius is the equ to our infamous Mr. Murphy, who wrote all those "Murphy's Laws?" He alternates between a friends place down in Tennessee, and my place when he gets thirsty, and comes in and drinks my last beer in the wee hours of the morning. > Anyway, the damn things are still out there. They are a #@&^%$ virus, but they are purty, so they fly off the pegboard displays, P.T. Barnum was right. > Erik > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
