Seagate and AMD demo 6 Gbps SATA

On Mar 10, 11:04*am, Igor Batinic
wrote:
Can you elaborate this? I've never seen such a thing, on the various
systems from 2 to 180 disks. )

Best regards,

Iggy

Nvidia SATA driver bricks Windows - The Inquirer
"THERE IS simmering discontent on the world wide wibble about Nvidia's
SATA driver with punters complaining that it has a nasty habit of
bricking Windows.

Following a tip off, we did a search on "nvgts.sys BSOD" and found
shedloads of posts weeping and wailing about the fault.
There were even a few moans on Graphzilla's own forums where users
were also complaining that Nvidia was treating them all to a deafening
silence."
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...-driver-bricks

On Mar 10, 7:44*pm, "Timothy Daniels" wrote:
* * I wonder if Monster Cable makes a SATA cable using only high
bandwidth copper isotopes.

*TimDaniels*

Monster only builds them with gold isotopes. :-)

Yousuf Khan

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:30:24 -0700 (PDT), YKhan
wrote:


Which chips? *Which SATA controller (vendors)?

Since you had 4 SATA drives installed, then it seems likely that you
may have been affected. Do you have an Nvidia chipset in your machine?
It doesn't seem to matter if you have an AMD or an Intel processor,
the common factor seems to be the Nvidia chipset.

Yousuf Khan

Yousaf,

Thank you for your reply.

I don't have a NVidia chipset, or didn't until I just replaced my
graphics card. The SATA drives are controlled by an Adaptec 1240 SATA
II controller.

-AH

YKhan wrote:

On Mar 10, 7:44*pm, "Timothy Daniels" wrote:

* * I wonder if Monster Cable makes a SATA cable using only high
bandwidth copper isotopes.

Monster only builds them with gold isotopes. :-)

A superior brand (i.e., even more expensive than Monster) uses
"conductive dielectric". Really, I saw that claim at the UK website
of a company that sold A/V cables.

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:00:27 -0700 (PDT), larry moe 'n curly wrote:

YKhan wrote:

On Mar 10, 7:44*pm, "Timothy Daniels" wrote:

* * I wonder if Monster Cable makes a SATA cable using only high
bandwidth copper isotopes.

Monster only builds them with gold isotopes. :-)

A superior brand (i.e., even more expensive than Monster) uses
"conductive dielectric". Really, I saw that claim at the UK website
of a company that sold A/V cables.

....which presumably contains 100% pure Unobtanium Oxymoronate, distilled
from free-range organic snake oil?

Frazer Jolly Goodfellow wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:00:27 -0700 (PDT), larry moe 'n curly wrote:

YKhan wrote:

On Mar 10, 7:44?pm, "Timothy Daniels" wrote:

? ? I wonder if Monster Cable makes a SATA cable using only high
bandwidth copper isotopes.

Monster only builds them with gold isotopes. :-)

A superior brand (i.e., even more expensive than Monster) uses
"conductive dielectric". Really, I saw that claim at the UK website
of a company that sold A/V cables.

...which presumably contains 100% pure Unobtanium Oxymoronate, distilled
from free-range organic snake oil?

Sounds good! I bet a "conductive dielectric" can also be used
to create energy out of nothing!

Andrew Hamilton wrote:
Thank you for your reply.

I don't have a NVidia chipset, or didn't until I just replaced my
graphics card. The SATA drives are controlled by an Adaptec 1240 SATA
II controller.

An Nvidia graphics card has nothing to do with it, that's a totally
separate product made by Nvidia. It's only affected by an Nvidia
motherboard chipset.

The motherboard chipset is that chip on the motherboard that is already
soldiered on when you receive it. It controls all of the i/o
capabilities of your system, such as PCI/PCI-e connectors, SATA, IDE,
floppy, USB, etc. It's the most important chip on your system right
after the CPU.

Yousuf Khan

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:37:38 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

Andrew Hamilton wrote:
Thank you for your reply.


An Nvidia graphics card has nothing to do with it, that's a totally
separate product made by Nvidia. It's only affected by an Nvidia
motherboard chipset.


Yousuf Khan

Yousaf,

This is an older system with an AMD 76x chipset. I would have
replaced this system last year, but then the economy nose-dived. I'm
hoping to replace this old system later this year with an ASUS P6T
with an Intel i7 920. Hoping ...

On Mar 15, 2:28*pm, Andrew Hamilton wrote:
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:37:38 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

Andrew Hamilton wrote:
Thank you for your reply.

An Nvidia graphics card has nothing to do with it, that's a totally
separate product made by Nvidia. It's only affected by an Nvidia
motherboard chipset.

* *Yousuf Khan

Yousaf,

This is an older system with an AMD 76x chipset. *I would have
replaced this system last year, but then the economy nose-dived. *I'm
hoping to replace this old system later this year with an ASUS P6T
with an Intel i7 920. *Hoping ...

Well, I don't think you have anything to worry about. The AMD 76x
chipset is much more reliable than Nvidia chipsets. And besides, the
RAIDing is being provided by your Adaptec controller, and not by the
chipset's built-in controller.

Yousuf Khan