[geeks] SATA Drives and Delay Start

Thu Mar 6 01:54:03 CST 2008

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:59:32 -0500
Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:

> The SATA power connector to which the drives will be attached are
> coming directly from the power supply.
As I understand it, the staggered spinup pin is usually used by SATA
backplanes, not by ordinary PSU cables. Chek pin 11 on the cables. If it
is grounded, you got a problem. Though, you could always hack the
connector... (A small strip of isolating tape on pin 11 or the like.)
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