Subject: Re: hard drive screwing up (was re: motherboard)
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: None <emre@module.vsrc.uab.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/22/2001 22:03:50
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:58:41PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:

> Are you using the 80-wire UDMA cable for the drives?  Are the disks hanging
> off the same IDE bus or are they on different buses?

Yes, I'm using the cables that came with the motherboard.  The drives are on
different busses.

> Is your power supply powerful enough (350 W or more)?

it's 300, but there arent many devices in the box...

> I have 30 GB and 45 GB IBM disks in my KT7-RAID machine (2+2 disks) and a
> CD-ROM - no problems (other than the Athlon running a bit hot ;)  I'm using
> UDMA66 cables for the drives and the power supply is rated at 350 W.

Yeh...same problem here, but I managed to get a peltier heatsink+fan for the
Thunderbird.

Thanks