Greg Freemyer said the following on 04/10/2013 07:32 AM:
I don't recall it causing errors like you are seeing. Before suspecting a bad drive I always suspect a bad sata cable. I've seen dozens (if not hundreds) of weird sata comunications issues resolved by replacing the cables.
Very much so. I had a series of machines (bulk purchase of desktops) where the cable would allows the DVD drive to play movies, burn DVDs, everything we tried EXCEPT install certain OSs from DVD. Live CDs would boot. The cable was a high speed cable. Eventually we found a cable that "worked". We never did figure out this oddity. Oh, and the one OS that would boot/install - KNOPPIX For some reason KNOPPIX seems to work everywhere I've tried under the most wacky hardware and conditions. -- We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. --Thomas Jefferson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org