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| Thread ID: 85588 | 2007-12-15 09:25:00 | Will this SATA drive work in my PC? | springa886 (10558) | Press F1 |
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| 621381 | 2007-12-15 09:25:00 | Hey guys, im about to buy a new HDD from an online store but and I thought I'd better ask this question rather than get the drive and it not work on me!! So, I basically just want to know if the drive will work with my mobo. The mobo is a "MS-7142 (K8MM-V)" and the drive is a "Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM SATAII 8MB." Now reading through the owners manual I havn't seen anything to do with "SATA II," only "SATA 1.0" and "SATA I raid (niether of which I know anyhting about, all I know is I bought the cords I needed from TradeMe and now i'm buying the drive :D)." Plus, im curious to know if there would be any other conflicts with the drive and my mobo. Cheers for reading my problem :D any help is appreciated. |
springa886 (10558) | ||
| 621382 | 2007-12-15 10:25:00 | Short answer, highly unlikely it will run properly (by default) From here (en.wikipedia.org) Backward compatibility between SATA 1.5 Gbit/s controllers and SATA 3.0 Gbit/s devices was important, so SATA/300's autonegotiation sequence is designed to fallback to SATA/150 speed (1.5 Gbit/s rate) when in communication with such devices. In practice, some older SATA controllers do not properly implement SATA speed negotiation. Affected systems require user-intervention to manually set the SATA 3.0 Gbit/s peripherals to 1.5 Gbit/s mode, generally through the use of a jumper.[2] Known faulty chipsets include the VIA VT8237 and VT8237R south bridges, and the VIA VT6420 and VT6421L standalone SATA controllers. According to www.msicomputer.com you have one of the known faulty chipsets (VIA VT8237R) As mentioned, there may be a jumper you can adjust. Read the manual BEFORE you buy a SATA-2 device to see if such a jumper exists |
Myth (110) | ||
| 621383 | 2007-12-15 11:27:00 | The jumper is on the drive :p www.seagate.com |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 621384 | 2007-12-15 17:53:00 | The jumper is on the drive :p www.seagate.com never dealt with SATA personally, I've just learnt something.. ty :) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 621385 | 2007-12-16 03:48:00 | Ummmm.... hey cheers for the feedback guys but, IM LOST LOL. Does that mean all I have to do is set a jumper on the back of the drive for it to work in my system? and if so, what do I set it to? Or am I still lost?? :D |
springa886 (10558) | ||
| 621386 | 2007-12-16 03:51:00 | As per feersumendjinn's pic, set the jumper on the back of the drive to "Limit data transfer rate to 1.5Gb/s" There should be a diagram on the harddrive too :) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 621387 | 2007-12-16 05:06:00 | by default segate drives ship with the SATA 1 jumper ON. Worth noting if you feel your SATA II is not going as fast as you think it is.... If you get one that doesn't have the jumper, you can easily add one. Then it should work fine |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 621388 | 2007-12-16 06:34:00 | Thank you very much everyone. (Sorry about my last dumb post.... guess i should have looked at that link before i posted back huh :D) Cheers. |
springa886 (10558) | ||
| 621389 | 2007-12-20 00:53:00 | Umm, hey guys, I just got the new SATA drive today and put it in my case and hooked it up... then everything went bad!! I let it go through it's usuall process and it stopped at a screen that I have never seen before saying something about "Hardware Configuration and reading a manual" or something (it doesn't say what the manual is for, the drive or the mobo, and i onl;y have the manual for the mobo, the drive did'nt come with one!!!). Anyway, I restarted the PC and then hit Tab when it said to and a screen came up with "VIA Tech. VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS Ver. 4.50" at the top and few options underneath (again, I have never seen this screen before either,) but also a big red flashing notice saying: "NOTICE: The number of disks is not adequate to create RAID." Before i installed the SATA drive I had 2x DVD Drives and 2x HDDs connected to IDE. All of these are still conected and if I unplug the SATA drive my PC startsup as usuall. I don't know what to do!! Any suggestions??? Cheers. |
springa886 (10558) | ||
| 621390 | 2007-12-20 01:01:00 | When you added the SATA drive it activated the extra SATA RAID BIOS extension that's for your SATA contoller. It's just the same as the system BIOS setup utility but it's for creating RAID arrays. As you only have 1 drive, you cannot create a RAID array, hence the error. You don't need to create an array so there should be an option to just skip that. The manual is referencing your motherboard manual. Near the back in the BIOS setup section there should be some instructions on how to use the SATA RAID array setup. There it will have instructions on how to proceed without an array if you're using just a single drive. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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