Re: ide harddisk freeze WDC WD1800JB vs VIA VT8235

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 16:59, Mark Rutherford wrote:
> Q: are you using cables with a slave connector, but its not in use?
> I had this problem, with this chipset and it turned out that it didnt like
> having
> a long 80 wire cable with a loose connector
> I got a round cable with just 2 connectors, 1 for the board and 1 for the
> drive....
> never locked again.
> I thought it to be strange as well.
> but with my setup it happened more frequently, say once every 2-3 hours.
> hope this is of any help.

Thanks for your answer.

Indeed these cables have slave connectors (which are unused). I tried a
round cable and 2 different non-round ones... I also went down to udma4
(==udma66)... no use..

I am not sure whether the harddisk should cold-freeze... 

Soeren.