Re: OT: Strange interaction between NIC, SSD and motherboard

From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:38:06 UTC
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 5:18 PM Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> maybe the power supply is too weak to power the NIC and the two SSDs or
> even the NIC and the FreeBSD SSD, without the Windows SSD. The FreeBSD
> SSD might consume more mA or is somehow more prone to unstable power or
> connected to another power cable harness, than the Windows SSD. If so,
> it could explain that swapping SATA cables and SATA ports doesn't change
> anything. It's not my best guess, it's the only guess ;). Just a shot
> in the dark!

Almost certainly not the case since one of the tests I did was to
completely disconnect (including power cables) the windows SSD and it
still didn't see the FreeBSD one regardless of which cable and SATA
connector I used


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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org