[mythtv-users] OT: SATA errors

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 July 2009 19:56:45 Harry Devine wrote:
>> John Drescher wrote:
>> >> But how do I tell if the SATA ports on the MB are shot or not?  I had
>> >> moved the drives around to the other 2 and the BIOS could see them.
>> >> Wouldn't that mean that the SATA ports are OK?
>> >
>> > Do you have cards in the motherboard slots?
>> >
>> > John
>
>> No.  I have 4 SATA ports and they are on the motherboard itself.
>
> I think John meant do you have any sort of cards in any mobo slots? If so,
> remove them if you can, and put them back one by one if that changes things.
>

I was trying to gather whether or not your pci(-e) bus was working. If
other cards are not experiencing problems it is doubtful that the
motherboard is the cause.

BTW, what is your chipset?

John