Quote Originally Posted by AtlPackFan
Quote Originally Posted by Partial
Why not use firewire, then? Or some sort of digital connection where noise and signal length won't be factors.
Not sure. Its the customers call. We don't have firewire connectors on our single board computers I guess because we haven't had a call for them from any of our industrial customers but this customer could certainly add a firewire card. Interesting thought though. Wonder if I would get an "attaboy" if I suggested it.

For that matter, they could probably add a PCIe SATA card and everything would be fine?! Of course that would add a cost to their chassis they probably don't want to incur.
I would explain to them that their case design is flawed and that no such repeater exists. I would then recommend possibly making a switch to the more reliable and faster firewire, where they'll have less issues with data integrity to begin with.