Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Hard disk error (Error probing device: Error sending ATA command IDENTIFY DEVICE) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 12:47:11 +0200 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <7263clxr47.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <4bm3clx6pp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net kA+1umfHJ6EQrfqlb57lVg+oQiameTfkB3C2sodHh1BozcfvjD X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:DtifsCqwDfEjAiaIlPpZtBm2Kqs= sha256:jnET6E/HGzXm4SnQYvbA9ur53n53K5NpGPmmkAVFByo= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:81264 alt.comp.os.windows-11:18265 On 2025-04-04 12:28, Java Jive wrote: > On 2025-04-04 10:36, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> >> On 2025-04-04 05:33, Paul wrote: >>> >>> The work you are doing, is similar to the work an enclosure >>> engineer might do, before shipping this project. Each user >>> apparently expected to "sweep the web", "look for bootleg firmware", >>> "install" and "hope for the best". A science project. >> >> That's out of my league :-( > > Should you not just return it as not being fit for purpose? Sure, but which one can I get instead? Probably all 5 disk enclosures will be using the same chipset. I can instead buy 9 or 10 individual, one disk enclosures, with their 10 separate power supplies. I would need an insane cabinet space, too. I would have to cancel the project, and return the hard disks, too. > > I'm not sure how much help, if any, the following will be, because it's > not quite the same sort of thing that you've bought, but I have an > external drive bay based on an JMS56x chip, and by and large it works > fine.  In Windows, occasionally it doesn't register when I plug it in, > but that doesn't happen very often, and usually unplugging it, removing > ghost devices from Device Manager in Windows, and plugging it back in > will get it to work.  AFAICR, I've not had any problems with it under > Ubuntu.  Perhaps I should note also that I've not tried to use all the > functionality of it, for instance using it to copy disks directly. > > It's this: > > https://www.amazon.co.uk/RSHTECH-Aluminum-Multifunction-External-Tool- > Free-Black-Housing/dp/B07WNPG6KP > -- Cheers, Carlos.