On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Per Inge Oestmoen <pioe@coldsiberia.org> wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday May 7 2009, Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:
I already use SATA disks - inside the machine.
Is FireWire (IEEE 1394) an option? My WD MyBook has FireWire, eSATA _and_ USB. I'm using its FireWire interface.
Unfortunately not, since the enclosures I use only have USB and eSATA interfaces.
Per, eSata and Sata use exactly the same voltages, signals. You can buy an adapter cable for about $10 that is sata on one end an eSata on the other. The eSata end should come on a bracket so you can permanently mount the adaptor cable in your chassis. Then you just connect a normal eSata cable to it and to your eSata enclosure. All in all a one time $10 expense. And eSata is much faster than USB2.0 But you don't have to do that for now, just put the drive inside the computer and connect it via sata directly and see if the problem goes away. If it does you likely have a bad enclosure. If you still have problems, then likely have a bad drive. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team 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