Re: (Another?) Seagate / Sil3112a problem...

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sun Jan 07 2007 - 22:53:00 EST


Hello,

[cc'ing lkml and linux-ide]

Philippe Grenard wrote:
> To "close" this problem, here are the latest news :
> I just bought some new power supply, and the problem has gone...
> Maybe that was due to poor power flow or crappy connexion ?...
>
> now everything seems to work well, so as suspected, it was probably hardware
> problem.
>
> Sorry for that "false alarm", thanks again for everything, and keep up the
> good work!

Ah... so it was another one of those PSU problems. This problem is
becoming more prevalent these days. Dual 12v lane PSUs suck for driving
a lot of disks. They don't seem to allocate enough power to molex/sata
connectors.

--
tejun
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