I'm kind of at my whit's end with this issue.
I keep getting various read / write / checksum errors on the drive hooked up to one of my SATA ports. I have replaced the HDD with one that works for sure, the SATA cable as well and the FFC cable + adapter that attaches this drive to the motherboard. It's an odd setup with a laptop that requires this adapter to attach additional storage.
Does anyone have some experience diagnosing SATA signal integrity issues? For all I know both the FFC + adapters could be bung. However I'm a bit hesitant calling that the culprit since its a very simple circuit with 3 passive components (resistors or caps) and the soldering looks solid. I'm not against probing and replacing components on the motherboard but I can't find any relevant information on where to start.
Is my SATA port just bad?
ASUS G74SX Laptop
Other than this issue it works fine and is running many apps flawlessly. The HDD attached to the main SATA port works fine but 1 drive is obviously not ideal.
I keep getting various read / write / checksum errors on the drive hooked up to one of my SATA ports. I have replaced the HDD with one that works for sure, the SATA cable as well and the FFC cable + adapter that attaches this drive to the motherboard. It's an odd setup with a laptop that requires this adapter to attach additional storage.
Does anyone have some experience diagnosing SATA signal integrity issues? For all I know both the FFC + adapters could be bung. However I'm a bit hesitant calling that the culprit since its a very simple circuit with 3 passive components (resistors or caps) and the soldering looks solid. I'm not against probing and replacing components on the motherboard but I can't find any relevant information on where to start.
Is my SATA port just bad?
ASUS G74SX Laptop
Other than this issue it works fine and is running many apps flawlessly. The HDD attached to the main SATA port works fine but 1 drive is obviously not ideal.