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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Neil Walker <neil@×××××××.nu> wrote: |
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> On 26/03/10 20:17, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> I'm using kernel 2.6.33 and ahci driver for the SATA controllers. |
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> I never had good results with the ahci driver - hardware-specific |
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> drivers have always worked better for me. |
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>> Another possibility is that I need to increase voltage on the |
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>> motherboard, since it is running 6 hdd's and 1 DVD-ROM. I'll have to |
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>> research to see which voltage is related to this. (X58 motherboard) |
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> No, no, no! Don't touch the motherboard voltages! They have nothing |
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> to do with the connected drives. Surely you must have noticed that |
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> power to the drives comes directly from the power supply. If the |
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> drives are not receiving sufficient voltage, a new, bigger power supply |
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> is the only option. |
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Well, I was thinking more about something like alteriong IOH/ICH |
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voltage, or whichever voltage powers the SATA controllers. It has 12 |
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SATA headers on this motherboard but I don't know how much it can |
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realistically handle at once. Hopefully all of my disks. :) |
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