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, 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. Anyway, the damn things are still out there. 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
