[mythtv-users] OT: Hard disks randomly not found

[Alex Butcher]

On Mon, 25 May 2009, Ma Begaj wrote:

> I had 3x320 GB (Samsung) in my desktop/mythbox. I decided to take out
> two of these drives, replace them with one 1TB disk (Samsung Green...)
> and leave one of these 320GB drives for some other files.
>
> I saw some I/O error in syslog while copying file from 320GB disks to
> 1TB disk but copying finished nicely.
>
> But the problem persisted.
>
> During boot process some disks are not being recognized and BIOS POST
> is taking minutes to list the hardware.

I've had the same problem; it was a loose SATA cable, though there was no
visual indication that it was so. I found it by disconnecting and
reconnecting all my SATA HDDs.

It might be worth investing in some SATA cables with latching connectors,
such as those from startech.com.

> Any ideas?
> Thanks

HTH,
Alex.