Re: SATA 750 and jumpters

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:11:29 +1000, Franc Zabkar
<fzabkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9 Apr 2008 01:40:58 GMT, Arno Wagner <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> put finger to
keyboard and composed:

Previously Terry <kilowatt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here is what I have done.

I am trying to add a SATA WD 750


Everything was working fine. I added the 750 drive. It wouldn't
work. It hangs the computer at boot. I went to WD support page and
found this:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faq...

I installed the jumper and the drive worked! I copied all the files I
had on a 150G IDE drive to the new 750 drive. I then took the IDE
hard drive out. I mounted the 750 in its place. Well it quit working
again and started hanging at the boot screen.


When I try to boot the PCI SATA controller reports
WDC WD 5000 AAKS 00TMA 5 000 000
WDC WD 7500 AAKS 00RBA < It hangs here

I would suggest that your PCI contoller has a size-limit,
likely 500GB in its BIOS. If som a BIOS update of the
controller card _could_ fix this, if one is available that
extends the size limit. The other option is getting a
new SATA controller that supports drives >500GB.

Arno

The OP has had his configuration working at least once, so I can't see
how it could be a capacity issue.

What I find strange, and which I mentioned in the other thread, is
that, AFAICS, the BIOS would already have enough information to
calculate the drive's capacity (the Identify Drive command would have
retrieved a 512 byte block containing model number, CHS, LBA, etc),
but it hangs at this point. I suggested that maybe the BIOS was
testing the drive's SMART status before reporting its capacity. Maybe
disabling SMART in the BIOS setup would allow the POST to progress to
the next stage ???

- Franc Zabkar

I checked the Bios for any SMART settings and didn't find any.
Because of this suggestion, I did try booting with failsafe options,
but it still hangs at boot.

I went to SI's web page to try to find a bios upgrade. I found
several drivers. I didn't download any because there were too many
choices for my small brain.

I assume that any driver I would have selected wouldn't make any
difference anyway because the boot never gets that far anyway.

I have never tried to upgrade a bios but I didn't find anything
anyway.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions.

I guess the only thing left to do is get another controller.

The cards on the bottom of the drives are not the same.

.

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