On Friday 27 October 2017 11:19:09 Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:07 AM, Erik Christiansen > <dva...@internode.on.net> > > wrote: > > On 09.10.17 09:06, sam sokolik wrote: > > > I am very doubtful that the red dye is causing the problem.. (I > > > > dissected a > > > > > few styes - all have shielded pairs) > > > > Agreed. To see if the described "powdered copper wire" was the > > cause, I hacked into my replaced cable last night, and found that > > there's Al foil and a lot of clear polyethylene (or similar) in > > between. Furthermore, the substantial tinned conductors were > > pristine. > > > > So all I can truly report is that nothing would bring the machine > > back to life until I replaced the cable, and boot times and disk > > performance are 2 - 4 times better than shortly before it went > > catatonic. Reason? Dunno. So just a time-saving fortuitous > > coincidence? > > > > Could it be oxidation on the connector? vigorous unplugging and > > replugging wiping it clean, perhaps?
If I'm correct, that will do little for the problem, and likely the handling will make it much worse. BTDT, quite a few times. As a side note, Dell makes pretty good machines, I have 3 now. All still running on the OEM cables and they aren't red. So they must also know about this. To test, take a plastic tool, and just move the middle of the cable an eighth inch. If the log explodes with drive resets, there is your answer. 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
