SATA II and Incompatible Motherboards
Newegg and UPS wasted no time in delivering my new hard drive. They were fast! I was very happy with them all. However, I was not happy about my computer refusing to acknowledge that I had installed the new drive.
I slopped around in the BIOS, making sure SATA was enabled, but it all made no difference. Nothing I did would open the computer’s eyes to the new hard drive resting in its bowels.
After much pounding head against wall, I finally discovered a forum page discussing a problem just like mine. There I learned that my motherboard chipset was first-generation SATA, my new hard drive was second-generation SATA, and the motherboard was blind to it.
Western Digital themselves addressed the solution and explained the reasons for the issue. All I needed to do was install a jumper on the new drive to put it in SATA I mode.
Suddenly the motherboard realized what was going on and accepted the new drive with open arms.
And now I am wallowing in 300 extra gigabytes.
5 Responses
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:49 am
That’s good, ITF. We ran into the same problem at FB, buying SATA II/III for older mb models with only SATA I support. SATA has evolved fairly quickly, compared to IDE standards.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:51 pm
So I normally have nothing to say about posts like this except “yawn” or something dramatic like that, but I do happen to be sitting at the computer of Mr. ITF himself, and so I had to post some obnoxious comment just to feel smug. ;)
I don’t know, maybe I should get his autograph…, maybe I should never wash my hands again……, maybe I should kiss these royal keys……? Nah. I won’t bother with any of the above.
August 4th, 2006 at 7:36 am
Oh, I think I saw this on Star Trek once…
August 6th, 2006 at 12:22 am
I hope that’s enough space for a while. I wish the brain in my head had that much drive space… :-)
August 12th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Ag, glad to see your sense of reality is intact. {;^)
I still would like to see what you could do on MennoDiscuss……”sigh”…….guess it is not to be….such a loss to that online fellowship. {:^I
I rejoice that you have stayed in touch with ITF; with Darin off line these days our contact is rather limited; I miss our sparring matches of the old days. {;^)