On Jan 25, 2008 1:37 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 25, 2008 1:08 PM, Clayton <smaug42@gmail.com> wrote:
If all is good with a couple disks, and then starts failing with more, I would expect the PS to be the problem.
True, but.... I can have two drives connected to SATA 1 and 2, and a third drive connected to SATA 3 sends things for a loop. If I do not connect anything to SATA 3 and 4,instead connecting 2 drives to the motherboard and 2 drives to my 3rd party RAID card... everything works fine... so with 3 drives I get failures, but with 4 it's fine as long as the 3rd and 4th are not plugged into the motherboard SATA controller.
I have a fairly new 600W PSU from BeQuiet in the case... so there should be enough power for all devices.
Bigger PSUs are often harder to work with. I believe they tend to have multiple separate power subsystems. If you are indiscriminate about which connectors you use you can overload one subsystem while the overall unit is just chugging along fine. I think they call each subsystem a lane?
The old classic 450W was just one big system, so all the connectors were effectively equivalent.
Clayton, I think you said you were going to try an additional PSU. Did you? Did it help? Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org