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A strange HD crashing....
Yenome:
as soon as i read you flicking the connector makes it work. its either a loose pin in the pata female connector or its in the other end of the apdater.
plus even a 250w power supply can provider more than enough power. its amps that matter when it comes to running things like video cards and hdd. people feel oh bigger watts is better and most time if you calc it up you can do a 50watt bump and 5 - 10 more amps and run stable. course the other thing is single or multi rail. i like waffles btw bring on the waffles. i have no degree i just do lots of research when i need something. shame most the techs i talk to on the phone dont know a pata from a sata.
lilshawn:
you got my vote for saying "waffles" x2
Dervacumen:
I really didn't take the time to articulate my thoughts properly.
I'm imagining the SATA port on your motherboard may be flaky. If it were flaky due to a bad or cracked solder joint then the act of flicking the PATA to SATA power connector may cause the SATA cable that runs between your motherboard and the drive to move slightly. I arrive at this possible scenario because the power and SATA connection ports on a SATA drive are so close together. SO, if flicking the power causes movement in the SATA cable, then that cable may wiggle down where it connects to the motherboard, thus completing the connection. This would give the appearance that the flicking the power cable did the trick, when in fact you're actually moving the SATA cable inadvertently. Since a new cable didn't fix it, it would be either the SATA port on the drive or the SATA port on the MB. So using a different SATA port on your MB may solve the problem. I have a SATA port on my MS that flakes out. Took me a while to diagnose my drive problem, and this was it.
Maybe that's clearer.
ark_ader:
It is not really that difficult. If you have a Sata to Pata interface (I have one sitting next to me) that requires a molex and not a SATA power connector and it is losing power, then you you need:
1) A tighter fitting molex -> which you can get on a new PSU.
2) A molex to Sata connector (sitting next to me too) but you might have faulty molex sockets that can hinder your efforts so go to 1
3) A Sata power connector -> which you can get on a decent modern low cost PSU.
Like Shmokes knows. Faulty hard drives are bad news. Trying to create a problem where a drive can go bad is not a good thing, especially if you being cheap.
Better to buy a PCI Sata card and a new PSU and resolve the issue, than going cheap and having to restore your arcade drive. That is if you have backed it up already. ::)
Shmokes wants me to defend my argument. Simple risk analysis. No degrees here just experienced work as a field technician for over 20 years. Fix it fast, fix it right.
I had the same problem. I bought several Buffalo External Drives (640gb) and decided that I had enough with power bricks and USB cables being littered all over my desk. So I cracked open the cases and mounted them in my development server. The problem being the abundance of PATA interfaces and no Sata. I should follow my own advice and buy a PCIEx1 Sata card, but the drives are used as storage and rarely activated, and I opted for the PATA to Sata interfaces with the Molex power. :puke No I go for the Pata to Sata and it worked very well until things started to go pear shaped.
I got problems with the connectors too. Reboots etc.
I just got a new mainboard + CPU that has oodles of sata ports to replace this ageing behemoth which will go into my Weecade.
Don't mess about with your data. It is so easy to lose it and when it is gone, it is very hard to get it back. :cheers:
ark_ader:
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--- Quote from: shmokes on July 21, 2012, 11:06:51 pm ---You've explained that a faulty power supplies can cause erratic behavior. And you've described how an underpowered power supply can be similarly problematic. And I absolutely agree on both accounts. But I don't see how it could cause a problem that could be reliably fixed by jiggling the power connector where it plugs into the hard drive.
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god's plan? :dunno
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I think you are looking for some attention.
Congratulations on your recent discovery, and I am sure it will work for you when the crap hits the fan in your life.
I have some jerks who show up at my door early every Sunday morning offering me pamphlets, saying the world is going to end.
I keep telling them to ignore me and try to save my hard drives.
Should I point them in your direction? :laugh2:
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