Florian Effenberger wrote: > sorry, it seems it was all a false alert and our mainboard was > defective. At the end, it turned on only sometimes. To test it, we > wanted to install Windows, which didn't work as well. > > Now the dealer changed the motherboard, and we are just fine with 3.0 > Gbps and Kernel 2.6.21.5. > > Sorry for the big confusion and for your great help! I didn't know the > board was defective in the first place, there have been no indications > like that... Yeah, things like these are tricky. SATA is usually the first one to suffer from hardware defect including power fluctuation due to input power, PSU or on-board voltage regulator problems because the link is relatively long and runs at very high speed. I also heard that SATA cables should have been made more resistant to interference but I'm no expert in that area. It's interesting to see how it got solved. Thanks for another data point to blame hardware when I don't have a clue. :-) -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
