Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932895AbWL0DmN (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:42:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932897AbWL0DmN (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:42:13 -0500 Received: from ag-out-0708.google.com ([72.14.246.242]:31108 "EHLO ag-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932895AbWL0DmM (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:42:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Q6Nit5yz1fbPUG25UmNkTaPupgYSbhdm1pAsO4zu90Scmsjd8KABHl0HIpgdLaCRBlwYxwu6INoQLmW9FehLbdAFRvhoz1/8KWvpwFeK9+QBlEcgMKjGd80TaC8XsCHaK3u9qd95YTdU3zm3xYoLCaMbusy4/XruHc9ZCjO2u7Q= Message-ID: <4591EB76.3060801@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:41:42 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: erik@echohome.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: System / libata IDE controller woes (long) References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1129 Lines: 27 Hello, Erik Ohrnberger wrote: > Earlier this year, when I started putting it together, I gathered my > hardware. A decent 2 GHz Athlon system with 512 MB RAM, DVD drive, a 40 GB > system drive, and a 500 Watt power supply. Then I started adding hard > disks. To date, I've got 5 80 GB PATA, 2 200 GB PATA, and 1 60 GB PATA. That's 9 hard drives. How did you hook up your power supply? My dual-rail 450w PS has a lot of problem driving 9 drives no matter how I hook it up while my 350w power supply can happily handle the load. I suspect it's because how the separate 12v rails are configured in the PS. It's nothing concrete but I wanna rule PS issue first. If you've got an extra power supply (buy cheap 350w one if you don't have one), hook half of the drives to it and see what happens. Using PS without motherboard is easy. Just ask google. Happy holidays. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/