Seagate ST9640423AS
ST9640423AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9640423AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How can I enable AHCI on a SATA drive after installing Windows?
Question: Can I enable AHCI after installing Windows 7 in a SATA drive that was on IDE mode? Answer: You need to make the msahci and/or IastorV drivers be loaded…
Seagate ST9640322AS
ST9640322AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9640322AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to check if my eSATAp port provides 12V power?
Question: I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13″ model 0217-2QG with eSATAp port. How do i check if my port provides 12V power (enough to power a 3.5″ HDD)? Answer:…
Seagate ST9640320AS
ST9640320AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9640320AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Soldering a SATA-Data cable to a HDD
Question: I tried to clean my computer and accidentally ripped of the SATA cable from the HDD which resulted in a broken SATA data port because the “L” on the…
Seagate ST960813AS
ST960813AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST960813AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Check health of eMMC
Question: How can I check the health of eMMC with linux? It seems that smartctl can’t handle it: root@om:~# smartctl -a /dev/mmcblk0smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 (local build)Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce…
Seagate ST96023AS
ST96023AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST96023AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Force spin-down of external hard-drive on linux (raspberry pi)
Question: I’m currently setting up a home-server using a Raspberry Pi with an external hard-disk connected via usb.However, my hard-drive will never spin down when being idle. I tried already…