Spriggan43

k i just got a Maxtor 300G Serial ATA (16MB cache) hard drive and i am having problems with it working .. or getiing in to the os when its plugd in

Spriggan43

Formatted capacity: 300GB
Average seek time: <9.0
Rotational speed: 7200 RPM
16MB cache buffers
Serial ATA interface:
- SATA/150 Interface with Native Command Queuing Fluid Dynamic Bearings
Maxtor Shock Protection System
Maxtor Data Protection System

Spriggan43

Chipset

• nVIDIA® nForce3 Ultra Chipset
- HyperTransport link to the AMD Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX CPU
- HyperTransport supporting speed up to 1GHz (2000MT/s)
- AGP3.0 8X interface at 533 MT/s (million transfers per second)
- Two independent SATA controllers, for four drives
- IEEE 802.3 NVIDIA MAC for 1000BASE-T
- Dual Fast ATA-133 IDE controllers

• An IDE controller on the nVIDIA nForce3 Ultra chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO,
Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices

• Supports 4 SATA ports. Transfer rate is up to 150MB/s.

• NV RAID (Software)
• Supports up to 4 SATA & 2 ATA133 Hard drives
- RAID O or 1, 0+1, JBOD is supported
- RAID function work w/ATA133 + SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D

dai

sounds like a bios misconfiguration,check your manual for the correct setting for running sata as ide

Spriggan43

i belive i have set all the corect settings in bios (what about the raid settings??) how can i tell if the drive is sata2... For i feel the shop keeper has giving me the wrong hard drive.. i asked for a sata hard drive... for my mobo can only take sata1 not 2

dai

with mine i have to load the raid driver on f6,each m/b is different depending on the chipset
if it is sata2 it will give a transfer rate on the label of 300mg,if it is you just have to put a jumper on the back limiting it to 150mg

Spriggan43

it says 3.00gig /s on it some where.. so what do i have to look for to jumper it to slow down to sata 1

dai

thats what i had to do

Spriggan43

i try jumpering what looks to be it, but it still dose not work..

Ralck

Have you checked the power/data cables? A common complaint of most cases is that they do not leave enough room for the power/data cables and these can get broken or loose connection when the side of the case is put on.

dai

when you look at the back of the drive the jumper goes on the two left pins

Spriggan43

i can get in to windows with out jumpering any thing but i can not format it.. :S

dai

what has windows got to do with it,windows is'nt on it
can you see it in disk management,and did you try formatting in there with the jumper on

Spriggan43

K... I went back to the shop... after 30min stuffing around with this sales guy, we decide to swap the drive for a Samsung 250gb hard drive... when I get home, I opened the plastic ceasing to find that the sata port is busted.... then that’s when I got mad.... to day I am taking the drive back to get a IDE port drive for all this stuff around is from sata....

Drive cost $122
Cost to get to and from shop… $4.20 x 2 = $8.40
Hours missed at work… 2 hours x 20 = $40
So the total cost off been stuffed around is… Total =$170.40

So it would of cost me the same price to get the drive from office works...