Gene Heskett @ 06/15/2013 01:42 AM: > On Saturday 15 June 2013 04:08:13 scar did opine: >> i've been having HDD issues lately, and the issues have persisted across >> two different disks and two different SATA ports on the motherboard >> > That hot red plastic die used to color MOST sata cables is a time bomb. > That particular red die causes the copper in the cables to embrittle and > connectivity goes away, like its some sort of acid. > > Ditch the hot red colored cables. They are a time bomb that WILL go off, > sooner rather than later. thank you Gene for this insightful input. all five of my internal disks use these red cables! ;~; i will check local hardware store for alternatives. BTW i finally got the ata3 errors, the other SError was Handshk[1]. 1. http://pastie.org/private/txwmbwyuot2sebmlrigp9g -- 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
