On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:46:44PM -0800, Mr O wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:46:44 -0800 (PST) > From: Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] craptastic new drives I got at fry's :( > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> > > ATA is just a standard. PATA = IDE, yes there's still plenty of > IDE drives. SATA comes in a few flavors just as PATA does. SATA > I & II, drives with TCQ, NCQ and no CQ. > > Could be a bad controller on your motherboard as well. If one > drives works fine on one port use those cables and that port to > test the other drive. Powermax is available in ISO format on > Maxtor's site and does support SATA drive *BUT* not on certain > Via and Nforce chipsets.
I dont think i have those, my board asus p4r800-v has sis 180 controller. I'll have to look over thier website... im just not feeling up to it right now... tired of crap, and I'll deal with it later :( I should also do some testing to figure out if its cable/controller/drive before I check out maxtors site though... Thanks for all the good info on ata disk drives... its sadly complicated... moreso if you throw in scsi... > > Fry's is only good if you know exactly what you want and have no > expectations of returning there any time soon. With that in > mind, I've made plenty of purchases there. Usually without the > help of a sales goon. (They're only good for fetching parts > anyway). I always get a laugh out of what sales people tell > customers there and what those customers assume. I try my > hardest to not help too many people when I'm there. I try not to listen to the sales people, cause its difficult to force myself to just shut the hell up, instead of blurting out something milk chan would say. yeah, i only ask for help when i cant find something i specificly went there for! sometimes you can get a pretty decent deal on things there, but grrr... they gotta lotta crap too. I figured the hard drives were the least of my problems (and it may even turn out its not the drives...) rebates suck too... either you forget to send them in on time, or you forget when you rebate was supposed to come in, and its expired or lost... i'll just shut up now... Jamie > > That be all, > Mr O. > > --- LinuxRocks! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yeah, i tried it, but some of the utilities didnt work at all, > > it claims > > to only work with ata drives (does this mean not sata? what > > about uata? > > do they even selll ata drives?) > > Anyway... it didnt seem to help any with my sata drives. (i > > did try > > to write zeros, with a utility on there, and it just hangs) > > > > Jamie > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
