On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 04:07:51PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Existing sata cables should Just Work, if they are not "hot red" colored. > Those s/b summarily shit canned and shipped out with the weekly trash > pickup, with extreme prejudice and replaced with any other color, as the > hot red dye destroys the wire in it in 3 to 5 years. Good sata cables > are cheap, get rid of the hot red ones. This failure of hot red cables > has been known by this now old man (and he's a CET, a scarce item) since > it first showed up in J.A.Pan company CB radios just a couple years > before we celebrated our 200th anniversary in the 1970's. Do you think that they are using the same corrosive dye in 2021 in SATA cables that people used in CB radios in 1970-something? I don't know what you consider "hot red" versus some other red, but I've had a PC with red SATA cables work fine for six or seven years until an unrelated fault forced me to retire the machine. -- Steve ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
