Re: Freshly built system doesn't see SATA drive

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:32:14 GMT, "Biffa Bacón" <biffa@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> C> The build was pretty straighforward, but on powering the machine up,
>> C> the BIOS didn't appear to find the SATA drive. I've checked and double
>> C> checked the connections, but there hardly seems anywhere to go wrong -
>> C> a single data cable, and a power cable (using an adaptor from the
>> C> power supply to the SATA power connection on the disk).
>> C> I've not used SATA before. Has anyone any ideas what the problem
>> C> might be?

>> SATA isn't an IDE drive so bios won't see it. you have to load the sata
>> drivers that came with your motherboard (probably on a 1.4M floppy) when
>> you are installing your OS. with WinXP, boot from the CD, and press F6
>> when prompted.
>> Pete
>
>Nah, SATA drives should still shout out in the bios.

Oddly, there's no reference to SATA in the BIOS setup at all - nothing
even like "No SATA drives found".

>There are some incompatabilities between SATAII drives and VIA chipsets.

ah.

>See if there is 'owt in your HDD documentation about a jumper to set the
>drive to SATA I compatability ?

There's nothing obvious here:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1228&p_created=1090517232

Unless the "limit to 150MB/s" setting is the same as "SATAII" (I'm
pretty ignorant about SATA, and didn't know there were different
specs. Oops).
--
Champ
.

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