[mythtv-users] OT: SATA errors

[Harry Devine]

John Drescher wrote:
> 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
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The MB is an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe with an nVidia nForce4 SLI x16 
chipset (from the MB manual).  I have an nVidia GeForce 9400GT video 
card in the PCI-e slot and a pcHDTV5500 tuner card in one of the regular 
PCI slots.  Both are working fine.  The SATA ports are on the MB itself 
as I mentioned earler.

Thanks for the help!
Harry