[KLUG Members] testing SATA drive

[bill]

Thanks for all the help on the SATA drive.  It's working now.

The idea of booting to a linux CD helped, but for an unexpected reason.

I unplugged the SATA connector and connected it to another jack (there
are two on the ASUS motherboard).  Linux recognized it right away, added
it to etc/fstab and it was available as /mnt/sd1  But... I couldn't read
it.

I was surprised at that and rebooted, popping out the CD.  It booted
right into windows XP (actually, it booted into Win 98, which really
threw me until I realized they had left a bios boot disk in the floppy
drive).  I rebooted several times to see that it now worked fine but
couldn't figure out what happened.

Looking at the Mobo, I saw the "gold fingers" on the original connector
were green.  Yuck.  Looks like corrosion degraded the connection until
it no longer worked.  I had actually disconnected and reconnected the
data cable several times, but never looked at the components (who
does?).  It was the connection to SATA 2 that did the trick.

How the corrosion happened I don't know.  But, the system is working now
I'll give Linux some credit.

kind regards,

bill


On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:33, Mark Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:45 -0500, bill wrote:
> > The drive is Serial ATA and I don't have any other boxes that have that
> > interface to test whether it is the drive or the computer.  Any ideas?
> 
> This might be too simple but do they have a SATA controller card or is
> it a plain old ATA?
> 
> Mark
> 
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