On Wednesday 27 December 2006 00:50, Erik Ohrnberger wrote: >Hi There! > Yea, I thought that it might be power related as well, so I moved >1/2 of the drives from the 500 Watt power supply onto a separate one, > and it did not change any of the symptoms. So I think that it's been > ruled out. > > Thanks, > Erik.
Cable lengths can be a bear too, particularly if the drive set as master is NOT on the end connector of the cable. >> Hello, >> >> Erik Ohrnberger wrote: >> > Earlier this year, when I started putting it together, I >> >> gathered my >> >> > hardware. A decent 2 GHz Athlon system with 512 MB RAM, >> >> DVD drive, a >> >> > 40 GB system drive, and a 500 Watt power supply. Then I started >> > adding hard disks. To date, I've got 5 80 GB PATA, 2 200 >> >> GB PATA, and 1 60 GB PATA. >> >> That's 9 hard drives. How did you hook up your power supply? >> My dual-rail 450w PS has a lot of problem driving 9 drives >> no matter how I hook it up while my 350w power supply can >> happily handle the load. I suspect it's because how the >> separate 12v rails are configured in the PS. >> >> It's nothing concrete but I wanna rule PS issue first. If >> you've got an extra power supply (buy cheap 350w one if you >> don't have one), hook half of the drives to it and see what >> happens. Using PS without motherboard is easy. Just ask google. >> >> Happy holidays. >> >> -- >> tejun > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
