Messages in this thread | | | From | "Erik Ohrnberger" <> | Subject | RE: System / libata IDE controller woes (long) | Date | Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:50:57 -0500 |
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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. > > 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 >
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