SATA 3.0Gb/s HD Not Detected in BIOS - Maxtor 7V300F0 1

[ngkatsaras]

Hi,

I just bought this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144032

Maxtor MaxLine III 7V300F0 300GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

My motherboard is:

SOYO SY-KT600 DRAGON PLUS V1.0

http://www.soyogroup.com/downloads/...MD+Athlon+XP,+T-Bird,+Duron&col2=280&col3=All

The BIOS has either IDE or RAID options for the SATA controller.

I have the most recent VIA 4in1 Hyperion drivers from here:

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=1&CatID=1070

I tried the "VT8237 Integrated Serial ATA RAID controller" driver from here:

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=1&CatID=1180&SubCatID=143

But that doesn't work because I'm not set in RAID mode, I don't want RAID mode, I want IDE mode. When I try to install that driver it says the required hardware is not installed, I suspect that would change if I set to RAID mode...

On SATA 1 I have a MAXTOR 7B300S0, also a Maxline III series, 300GB, which works fine.

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...Enterprise Storage/MaXLine Family/MaXLine III

I have tried the new hard drive on both SATA 1 and SATA 2 and neither works.

I wonder if it's because my motherboard doesn't support the 3.0Gb/s speed and if this drive is NOT backwards compatible?

I just think it's odd that one Maxtor Maxline III series hard drive will work, but the other one won't.

I'm thinking of buying an SATA controller board that supports 3.0Gb/s speed to see if that works.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks,

Nick

 

[ngkatsaras]

I just read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sata

SATA/300

With the release of the NVIDIA nForce4 chipset in 2004, the clock rate was doubled to 3 GHz, for a maximum throughput of 300 MB/s or 2.4 gigabits per second (Gbit/s). SATA/300 is backwards-compatible with SATA/150 devices, allowing SATA/150 hardware to interface with SATA/300 ports and SATA/300 hardware with SATA/150 ports (albeit the latter at the slower 150 MB/s data rate).

The 3 Ghz specification has been very widely referred to as “Serial ATA II” (“SATA II”), contrary to the wishes of the Serial ATA standards organization that authored it. The official website notes that SATA II was in fact that organization's name at the time, the SATA/300 specification being only one of many that SATA II defined, and suggests that “SATA 3Gb/s” be used instead.

-- I wonder if I have a bad hard drive...

 

[oddie2]

I think you are correct when you say that your mobo don't support 3,0 Gb/s, because you have a VT 8237
Serial ATA controller. This is because som chipset don't support these controllers. The next problem is that the software in the HDD does'nt automatic reduce speed from 3,0 to 1,5 GB/s. You need a jumper to reduce the speed, and then all your problems is solved.

See this link how Samsung has solved the problem.

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/support/faqs/faqs_20050727_0000180403.htm

oddie2

 

[ngkatsaras]

Excellent find oddie2! Thank you, I will research to see if there is a similar setting for my drive.. if anybody can find this out for me before I do, I'd appreciate it. I think this is something a lot of people would like to know about.

I wonder if this is the fault of the controller or the hard drive?

 

[ngkatsaras]

I contacted Maxtor support and they informed me that I needed to put a jumper on pins 1 & 2, counting from left to right.
This forces the drive in SATA-150 mode or 1.5Gb/s mode so that controller can recognize the drive.

I am now experiencing a loud click every once and a while, which I think may just be the heads parking..

This article explains normal and abnormal noises and clicking sounds

http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...nBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9bm9pc2U*&p_li=&p_topview=1

It just doesn't feel right.. I think the hard drive is parking too often and then has to unpark whenever I access the drive. Also, if I turn on diskeeper, the drive disappears from disk management and then I have to go into device manager and run a scan for new hardware, fortunately so far, each time I have done this the drive is redetected.

 

[ngkatsaras]

This explains everything, this should be a sticky... admins?

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24910