Wad Medani wrote:
On 18 Sep 2009 01:38:09 GMT, Arno wrote:


Well, it is nice that the problem went away, but I frankly cannot
imagine any way an IDE cable would be responsible. Did you change or
at least unplug/replug the power connections? Bad power
connections can cause spin problems as especially old drives
draw a lot of power on spindle startup.

Arno

His cables were round instead of falt ribbon and over the 18" length
spec limit so it could have very well been his cables. Round cables
are for case mod doodz and not computer savvy minded people.

For interface errors and data corruption, yes. But for
Spin-Retry? How would that work?

Incidentially I have made good experiences with rounded cables
as long as they were twisted pair, it was at least ATA66
(has mandatory checksums) and cable length was at or below 60cm.
The only problem I was with a CD burner that only used ATA33,
apparently without the checksums that are optional below ATA66.

Arno