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I think I've solved my Spin Retry Count problem
Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , Yousuf Khan writes Well anyway, what I did recently was that I converted two of those old IDE drives into SATA drives using an IDE-to-SATA converter board that fits right onto the back of the drives themselves. I started noticing that the Spin Retries were gone about two weeks ago, but that was only a week after I installed them I think the change in behaviour won't have anything to do with the cables. A dodgy IDE cable is going to affect a lot more than the Spin Retry count. It's probably more to do with the fact hat you have now converted the drive to SATA. Those plug-in converters are notoriously unreliable (especially if you buy the ebay cheapo ones). I've used several different ones with mixed results. How do you know the SMART data is getting through from the drive correctly, if at all? I have had reliability problems and compatibility problems with these things, but never wrong SMART reports (I have tried 5 different ones). I would say if Yousuf gets SMART values that they should be authentic. Arno |
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