ATA + SATA disks

Hello everyone!
Not so long ago, I used to use Slackware. I've bought new PC with Core 2 Duo recently, so I wanted also x86_64 OS. In order not to recompile Slack's packages I decided to check out Archlinux.
I was trying to install Arch, but faced one big problem. I've got one SATA and one ATA disk, and I want to install Arch on the ATA one. The problem is, that Arch (and actually other live distros neither) doesn't see this ATA disk. When I type 'fdisk -l' it shows partitions on the /dev/sda, but there's nothing about the disk which should be /dev/hda.
Because of the fact that on Window$ (not only I use this computer ) everything works, i thought the problem lies in drivers/modules, but...
I've tried to load ide_core, ide_disk, piix... doesn't work.
I've tried to turn off the SATA device (unplug cable and run installer), still doesn't work.
How are they connected?
SATA - port 5 - DVD-RW
SATA - port 6 - Hard disk
IDE - channel one (the only one on my motherboard) - Primary Master - Second hard disk
I think there's no RAID or something enabled by default... My mainboard is MSI (Intel P35 Chipset) Neo2-FIR
By the way, on 32bit version I have the same problem.
Last edited by un_ospito (2007-09-13 13:43:25)

I found : "1 IDE port by Marvell 88SE611" in mainboard's instruction. I've tried to load pata_marvell, but it still doesn't work. Finally I googled: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … l+88SE6111
I see people have problems with this. So, how to run it on arch?

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Difficulty detecting SATA disk, adding a second SATA disk, memory conflict, etc

I resolved the SATA problem in the middle of writing this post, but for others’ benefit in the future, I am still describing it here. But there are still some unresolved problems.
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I have an Intel P4 2.4 GHz CPU.
My MSI motherboard has the words 865PE Neon 2P on it.
BIOS is AmiBIOS 3.31a.
I cannot tell what display card I have. I do not see any brand printed on the card.
I have an (internal) 37 GB IDE hard disk (I cannot see the brand and I am too lazy to un-mount it) as the C drive.
About 3 years ago I added another internal disk, 150GB Western Digital WD 1600, SATA as the E drive.
I have a copy of Windows XP Pro SP2 on each of these two hard drives but I always boot on C.
I also have 2 DVD drives (Drives D and G) and 6 (2 at the side and 4 at the back) USB ports.
A shop installed everything for me and things have been well. I did not record the BIOS settings so I do not know how it was set up. My nightmare started about 2 weeks ago when my PC suddenly did not detect E, i.e. the SATA drive. I had not done anything to the BIOS setting or otherwise, so I have no idea why the E drive suddenly disappeared.
At that time, the Standard CMOS Features in the BIOS setting was:
Primary IDE Master - Not Installed
Primary IDE Slave - IC35L060AVV207-0
Secondary IDE Master - Pioneer DVD ROM
Secondary IDE Slave - Lite On DVD ROM
Third IDE Master - Not Installed
Third IDE Slave - Not Installed
Fourth IDE Master - Not Installed
Fourth IDE Slave - Not Installed
I tried many things and finally bought a hard disk enclosure and put that SATA in it and connect it to one of the USB ports. It works.
This morning I stumbled on this article "Motherboard can't detect SATA hard disk" at http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=119738.0 and also “Q: How to enable both SATA and PATA? “ on “NEO Boards Unofficial FAQ rev 4/05/2004 - two lights on "P" series” at https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=21469.0 taking about the On-Chip IDE Configuration section of the BIOS menu and I decided to give it a try, so that I can get rid of that hard disk enclosure.
It works, kind of. I saw that it was set to Legacy Mode, P-ATA Only, SATA Keep Enabled=No, PATA Keep Enabled=No, PATA Channel Selection=Both, Combined Mode Option=PATA 1st Channel, SATA Ports Definition= P0-3rd/P1-4th. So following the advice on the article and the FAQ, I reset it to Legacy Mode, P-ATA + S-ATA, SATA Keep Enabled=No, PATA Keep Enabled=No, PATA Channel Selection=Both, Combined Mode Option=PATA 1st Channel, SATA Ports Definition= P0-Master/P1-Slave. Now my PC could detect the SATA drive and set it as the D drive (and the IDE remained as Drive C) but my two DVD ROMs disappeared. The Standard CMOS Features in the BIOS setting was:
Primary IDE Slave - IC35L060AVV207-0
Secondary IDE Master - WDC WD1600JD-00HBB
The rest is Not Installed.
So, I (only) changed Combined Mode Option to SATA 1st Channel. So apparently my PC now booted using the WinXP copy on the SATA disk (recall that I have WinXP on both hard disks). And now the SATA disk is C, and both DVD ROMs are visible. My IDE disk disappeared.
Now I went back to the BIOS menu and switched back to PATA 1st Channel, reset it back to P-ATA Only, and changed SATA Keep Enabled=Yes. Voila. Now I can see my IDE disk as Drive C, SATA disk as Drive D, the two DVD ROMs as Drives E and G. Everything looks fine except that some of the start-up programs no longer start up apparently because their paths used to be E:\.... but now the disk they are on was renamed from E to D so the operating system cannot locate them. And the Standard CMOS Features menu reads:
Primary IDE Master - Not Installed
Primary IDE Slave - IC35L060AVV207-0
Secondary IDE Master - Pioneer DVD ROM
Secondary IDE Slave - Lite On DVD ROM
Third IDE Master - Not Installed
Third IDE Slave - Not Installed
Fourth IDE Master - WDC WD1600JD-00HBB
Fourth IDE Slave - Not Installed
Problem 1 (the main problem): Difficulty detecting SATA disk – Resolved. If anyone is kind enough, maybe you can tell me and others why suddenly the BIOS setting was changed by itself causing all these problems, and why “P-ATA Only, SATA Keep Enabled=Yes” works but “P-ATA + S-ATA, SATA Keep Enabled=No” does not. Should I now tweak the Windows registry to change the drive letter of the SATA disk from D to E?
Problem 2: I just bought an internal Hitachi Deskstar 640GB SATA disk. And I have a vacant orange SATA connector on my mobo. Can I add it together with the existing 2? Would it be set up as Third IDE Master, Fourth IDE Slave, or something else?
Problem 3: I used to have a Samsung DDR PC2700 512MB memory module and during the last week I added a Corsair DDR PC3200 1GB memory module, both on the green slots (not the purple slots). It caused my PC to freeze (keyboard and mouse not responsive) every now and then. So I pulled out the Samsung one and it has been working fine. Some said one has to use memory from the same manufacturer with the same size and same everything. The sticky thread titled “NEO Boards Unofficial FAQ rev 4/05/2004 - two lights on "P" series” in this forum has a question “I have this RAM xxxx but it does not work with my board. Can MSI update the BIOS to fix this?” and the answer points to a Product Info page and I don’t know where that is. Any advice on how to make both work together? Can I use the purple slots?
Problem 4: The “usable” space on my Dell M991 CRT monitor has shrunk. That is, the black areas on both sides, mostly RHS, have intermittently enlarged. It only happened in these 2 weeks. I tried Control Panel – Display – Settings – Advanced – Displays – Adjustments to no avail. I don’t have another monitor to try in order to test whether it has to do with the CRT. Just in case you happen to know anything, please jot a line.
Problem 5: Some of my USB ports do not work or only work intermittently. For example I plugged in my wireless adaptor into one of them and it sometimes would say “USB Device Not Recognized”.

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If anyone is kind enough, maybe you can tell me and others why suddenly the BIOS setting was changed by itself causing all these problems, and why “P-ATA Only, SATA Keep Enabled=Yes” works but “P-ATA + S-ATA, SATA Keep Enabled=No” does not.
Maybe your CMOS Battery is running low and it is time to replace it.
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Should I now tweak the Windows registry to change the drive letter of the SATA disk from D to E?
Try to change drive letters via the Windows Drive Manager:
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/driveltr.php
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Problem 2: I just bought an internal Hitachi Deskstar 640GB SATA disk. And I have a vacant orange SATA connector on my mobo. Can I add it together with the existing 2?
If it is a SATA-II Drive, you will probably have to force it into SATA-I Compatibility mode first (check the hard drive user manual for jumper settings or firmware switches).
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I used to have a Samsung DDR PC2700 512MB memory module and during the last week I added a Corsair DDR PC3200 1GB memory module, both on the green slots (not the purple slots). It caused my PC to freeze (keyboard and mouse not responsive) every now and then. So I pulled out the Samsung one and it has been working fine. Some said one has to use memory from the same manufacturer with the same size and same everything.
Exactly. Mixing different memory modules causes problems in many cases because the exact same settings will apply to both modules at the same time. What works for the one module may not work so well for the other one.
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Just in case you happen to know anything, please jot a line.
That is either related to the monitor itself or to the video card. It may also be related to a problem with the driver or improper screen resolution settings.
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Problem 5: Some of my USB ports do not work or only work intermittently. For example I plugged in my wireless adaptor into one of them and it sometimes would say “USB Device Not Recognized”.
What ports? Front Panel or Back Panel?

Connecting a SATA disk to my iMac

I had my 250GB LaCie d2 SATA disk connected to my G3 using the Serial ATA PCI card which came with the disk.It worked fine.
Recently I replaced the G3 by an iMac; it has no SATA connection and no room to add the Serial ATA PCI card.
However, I also bought an Iomega 1TB disk, which has four ports/connections with the right cables.
The FireWire port is the connection to the iMac, the USB port I used to connect another 80GB LaCie disk. Everything's ok, but when I connected the SATA LaCie disk to the Iomega, using a SATA to eSATA cable, the disk doesn't appear in the System Profiler.
Apparently, I just can't leave out the PCI card.
The LaCie manual states the I need this PCI card or (adjusted)BIOS.
Does anyone see a way around the PCI card;do I need other drivers; can I change my BIOS, whatever that may be?

I'm sure in some way you could but to just use a ESATA disk it's a waste of time, money and a perfectly good computer. Why not just move on and replace it with a Firewire 800 drive, it may surprise you how fast it is. Even better if you can get the disk out of the enclosure it's in you could put it in a FW800 enclosure.

SATA Disk won't work without a IDE disk connected.

Hi, my specs :
k8n neo2 platinum
amd xp3000+
crucial 3200 ddr memory
Samsung Spinpoint S-ATA 160GB
(IBM 70GXP IDE 40GB) Just in the box to make the S-ata drive work
NEC DVD-RW
I've been running this machine now for 3-4 months, with both HDD's. Today I decided to remove the noisy IBM disk from the system. I removed it from the Primary IDE Slave and made the DVD-RW stay alone on the Primary IDE.
So, now the only thing I got installed is the S-ATA disk on SATA3 or SATA4 slots.
and the NEC DVD-RW on Primary Master.
The problems starts here
Now my machine only goes to bios and stops because : INSERT SYSTEM DISK blablabla...
My SATA disk is properly displayed in BIOS as a working HDD. No problem there... I have tried everything, believe me... Everything that can be done... I have changed the Sata disk to all diffrent SATA slots, 1/2/3/4 and Cleared the BIOS, resetted the bios you name it.
But, when i install the IDE disk (ibm disk) on the Primary Slave IDE, everything works well!
PS: The IBM disk is just a MP3 disk that doesn't store anything else than that.
But!, in Windows, the IBM disk is named C:\ and the System disk (on the S-ATA drive) is named D:\ (no problems running WinXP at all with that issue)
This is really annoing, like i'm going to have that noise IBM disk in my chassis forever!

Your problem is that you had the ide disk connected when installing xp on the sata (3'rd master).
Windows_inst always use a disk on 1'st or 2'nd ide channel as system drive if it finds one (the first it sees) . So the ntldr,boot.ini,ntdetect.com is placed there .
When you remove the IBM drive there is no boot drive anymore .
What you should have done when installing windows to the sata drive
is to temporary disconnect all drives in front of it , so that the sata 3'rd master
is the first disk win_install sees .
Now you have registry of all programs and such pointing to D: in that win installation.
You should take the time to do a fresh new install with only the sata drive connected . This makes it system drive and it's partition C: .

Unable to put internal SATA disks to sleep

I have recently installed Barracuda ES SATA 750 GB disks in my G4 with a SeriTek 1V4 but have been unable to get them to sleep no matter what I do. I have updated the 1V4 firmware and played with both Cocktail and SpindownHD. The disks appear to be fully working except for sleep although they are not listed by either SpindownHD or System Profiler. They continue to rotate even when unmounted. The ATA boot disk sleeps as expected.
I would be grateful for any advice which will help me to put them to sleep - preferably automatically.

Hi! HERE's an article you may find helpful. Tom
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Serial ata sata hard drive

Hi members
I have a msi k8mm3 motherboard and want to connect a serial sata raid hd. but when i press tab to go into sata bios a get error message saying you need 2 hd to setup can some one tell me how to set up a diamond max 7L300RO serial ata sata raid and what the error meam.robin

You need the same size and preferably brand/model to make a RAID 0 or 1
With raid-0 you can, in theory, increase read/write performance. If one drive goes bad, you lose all data on both disks (half of the data is written to one disk, half to the other at the same time, that's why the performance comes from). In daily life, you won't notice that much of an increase, unless you work with many large files (video editing).
With Raid-1, you continuously make a copy of the disk you work from. In Windows you will only "see" one of both disks. The RAID controller sees to it that the data you write, is written to both disks, so if one goes bad, you can continue working from the other.
If you want to use only one SATA disk, you can. Set it to IDE in your bios or disable SATA RAID.
You can find the how-to in your board's manual.

IDE Hard disk + SATA Disk

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could take the time to give me some help, I recently assembled
a new computer using an MSI KT600 motherboard, the one showed here:
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=KT6V-LSR&class=mb
This board has two Serial ATA connectors that supports RAID 0 and RAID 1. I tried to attach an IDE hard disk and a SATA hard disk to it, but I started to get blue screens of death, I disconnected the SATA hard disk leaving the machine with only one IDE disk and everything is working fine now.
I cannot find any information regarding the use of one IDE disk and a SATA disk and my question is:
Is it not possible to use both at the same time?
My current configuration is this:
Maxtor hard disk 40 gigabytes Primary master
CD-Rom primary slave
DVD-Rom secondary master
DVD-RW secondary slave
My desire is to attach only one Western Digital 80 gigabytes SATA disk to the Serial ATA connector.
Appreciate your support

Hi guys,
I thought that I should let you know of my progress regarding the installation of a
Serial ATA hard disk to my stable machine that uses an IDE hard disk to boot up into Windows XP.
To be frank with anyone who could ask, this was a crazy experiment, I am still unsure that things are as smooth as they really look, but so far this is what happened:
My computer’s power supply did not had an empty connector for the SATA hard disk, so I decided to modify one of the connectors that are used to power up floppy drives attaching a a connector from another power supply. I connected the SATA disk to this connector, plugged everything and started the machine, the bios detected the new hard disk and Windows XP appeared without any problems. Because the new Serial ATA hard disk was not formatted, I could not see it in when I opened the Icon “My Computer”, so, following instructions from the manufacturer of the disk, I used a Windows Tool to format, the most amazing thing is that the disk was formatted in seconds.
I am able to access the second disk with no problems at the moment.
Anyway, that's it.

Transforming G4 in a fileserver with Sata disks is not working

Hi,
I know nothing about building servers or raids or anything but what I do know is that I would like to use my old G4 digital audio 533MHZ as a fileserver.
I've read on many forums you need a PCI sata card but, converters also do exist. I couldn't find why a converter wouldn't work so I bought a IDE to Sata converter since I'm only putting 1X 1TB WD SATA disk in there right now.
This converter cable can only be plugged into the ATA66 IDE, that's why I connected my ATA boot disk with Tiger on the ATA33 and disconnected the optical drive because otherwise Tiger doesn't boot.
The G4 only boots up from this ATA when the SATA is disconnected. With the SATA connected the G4 absolutely wants to boot from the SATA drive giving me a grey screen and nothing else. I was kind of expecting that the G4 would search for a bootable drive and boot from it but it doesn't. The ATA drive jumpers are on Cable Select. The SATA drive has no jumpers.
Next thing I could try is install Tiger or Leopard on the SATA drive. Would this work?
Is this because of the converter I'm using? Is the only way of doing this with a PCI SATA card?
Please enlighten me.

I should've known it wouldn't work with the converter so I bought the Sonnet PCI SATA controller on Amazon.
On the controller I connected my 1TB RED NAS drive and put in my new WIFI networkcard I used before in my G5. (The G5 will get it's internet connection from the G4 trough firewire in the future)
Now I was ready to get started with my fileserver, so I tought.
Every time I booted, the mac would freeze, every time when the screensaver started.
My troubleshooting led me to an faulty Ati Rage 128, 32MB graphic card.
I still had one 16MB laying around from my disassembled G4/400MHZ and now everything was ok.
Little did I know that making this server accessible for my laptop with WIN 7 would be very hard.
Eventually I found the solution on the internet where you have to disable some services on the WIN 7 machine.
One of those services is to disable the Pasword LAN Manager because if you don't Windows will keep asking your credentials without ever connecting to the server.
To my big surprise I noticed that only the Home directory on the MAC was shared and not my 1TB drive!
This is because my server runs on Tiger 10.4.11 where you can't choose the folders you want to share unlike Leopard.
It was hopeless until I found, after long searching the net, a reference to a program called 'Sharepoints' and bingo.
This program enables you to share whatever folder or drive on tiger just like in Leopard.
Now I have full control over my Mac server from WIN 7 and on my Iphone 4, I added an Free FTP app and an app called 'TIOD'.
This last, free, app is truly amazing.
Now I can browse all my shared drives on the MAC from my Iphone.
I can stream movies, and my music on the fly! Very cool.
This G4 is running silent and has only a 200W PSU wich makes it perfect.
Now there would be only 1 thing I want to do and this is to make it a webserver but if the ISP blocks port 80, 81 it seems impossible.
It could be done by using a service for wicht you have to pay but that's not worth it if you just want accessibillity to your files I think.
Or is there another way?
Please let me know.
Thnx.

Wich Sun machines can boot from SATA disk?

Hi,
I would like to know which (newer and older) Sun machines can boot from SATA disks.
I think this is a feature of the OBP - so the question is:
Are there any updated OBPs for older Sun machines to boot from SATA disks?
TIA
Bernd

Hi,
I am aware the limit with earlier openboot revisions that limit ATA drive size to +130GB>>( search the forum for previous threads on this topic ), I recommend using only
supported drives in Sun SPARC systems. What kind of project are you working on? That's my private test environment. Due to my limited budget I use only older machines there (for example, U10, U30, etc). I was thinking about buying a used V120 or something like that to replace my existing fileserver.
A V120 with two internal 500 GB harddisks would be perfect for that .
Looks like I've to wait until used T1000 are available to a reasonable price.
regards
Bernd

815M Pro (MS-6334) - how to use ATA/100 disk?

Western Digital website FAQ states:
"Q:I don't have a system that supports Ultra ATA/100, can I run the Ultra ATA/100 HDD in it?
A:Yes, the HDD will not run in UATA/100 mode but instead is a slower compatible
mode such as Ultra ATA/66, Ultra ATA/33 (33.3 MB/s), DMA Mode 2 (16.6 MB/s)
or PIO Mode 4 (16.6 MB/s)."
The MSI 815M Pro supports ATA/66.
Pentium III 800EB with Award BIOS W6334MS v1.3 042501 16:24:02
I have a Fujitsu MPG3102AT 10248MB ATA/66 disk being used successfully as Primary Master (no Primary slave).
CD-RW as Secondary Master (no Secondary slave).
I've tried to replace the Fujitsu with a Western Digital WD400BB 40GB EIDE (Ultra ATA/100) disk but when I power on the BIOS starts the memory test but machine powers off after a few seconds.
I can't find any BIOS setting which helps.
Can anyone advise how to get this disk to work?
Thanks

Quote from: Fredrik Åsenius on 10-September-06, 08:49:52
You mean, that it is during detection of ATA-devices computer powers off? If that should happen, I would never use a WD disk on this system. Halting is one thing, but powering off like that is unknown to me. Seems dangerous, if it is true.
yep its possible, can personaly confirm it.
"I would never use a WD disk on this system"
well dont worry about that, that happends with old WD HDD's only. WD is still TOP brand. like you probably know good brands has bad times sometimes, like IBM before they was buyed by HITACHI( 1st revision of IBM Desktar series). Quantum(Maxtor at thease days) has pretty malfuction series also like 1st SE series, MAXTOR with flat series lots of defective also, Seagate also with 7200.7 2nd revision IDE 80GB models lots of defectives(43 of them caput for 3 moutns personally happend to object where im support still remember numbers.....) and so on... every brand has their bad moments.
Quote from: tachyon42 on 10-September-06, 11:22:09
I have a 250W PSU and don't believe that just replacing the Fujitsu by the Western Digital drive could cause a power problem. I just have a floppy, HDD, CD-RW and a PCI graphics card on the motherboard.
The system works fine with the Fujitsu drive.
The Western Digital drive is not faulty - it works fine in another machine.
I'm inclined to go with the theory about ATA66 - hope someone can provide the Ultra ATA Management utility!
Any further ideas are very welcome.
yep im thinking the same thats why didnt recommend others i also didnt think PSU overload with WD instead Fudjitsu... gona search alile for this util(its pretty old)
i can be found in this pack for now:
http://www.pc-facile.com/download/recupero_eliminazione_dati/ultimate_boot_cd/
Hard Disk Diagnosis:
Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi) 4.05
PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.09/4.22
SCSIMax (Maxtor) 2.1
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital) 4.15/5.04c -> Diagnostic one
Data LifeGuard (Western Digital) 11.0 -> Diagnostic one
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate) 1.06.02/3.02.03en
Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu) 6.30
SHDIAG (Samsung) 1.25
HUTIL (Samsung) 2.00
GWSCAN (Gateway) 3.15
GWSCAN (Gateway) 5.09
Salvation HDD Scan and Repair 3.0
MHDD32 4.2
ExcelStor's ESTest 3.70
Hard Disk Device Management:
Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi) 2.00
AMSET (Maxtor) 4.00
MAXLLF (Maxtor) 1.1
UATA100 (Seagate) 3.06
Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital) June, 2003 ---> Thats which we are looking for.
SMARTUDM 2.00
ATA Password Tool 1.1
ATAINF 1.3m
ExcelStor's SATA Tool 1.10
Quote from: Stu on 11-September-06, 04:13:47
random instant unexpected power offs are caused by either an overheating CPU or an overloaded PSU
yep in most of cases yes, but dont think PSU overload can be coused by replacing Fudjitsu HDD with WD HDD.
he also dont have "random" shutoff" his shutdown is always at same place when HDD is began detected(not random).
about overheating CPU also cant be.. CPU is at full load at post??? and overheating but this happend only with WD HDD and PC shutdown?(dont think so) dont forgot all is alright with other HDD Fudjitsu HDD. if it is CPU heating or PSU should happend with other HDD(Fudjitsu) also not only with WD HDD.

[VIA Series] PT880 doesn't recognize SATA disk at first boot

Hello everybody,
I have an MSI PT880 that works fine since one year with a 40 Gb ATA Maxtor hard drive.
I have just bought a 80 Gb SATA hard drive (Maxtor model 6L080M0) and have a very annoying problem:
- when I power on the computer, the VIA Sata Bios tells me that it doesn't find any Sata disk (and WinXP doesn't boot...),
- then if I press Ctrl-Alt-Del or the Reset button to boot again, the Sata Bios find the Sata disk (and WinXP starts...),
- as long as the computer isn't power off, I can reboot many times, the Sata Bios will always find the Sata disk and boot WinXP,
- but if I power off the computer, then power on, the Sata disk is not recognized.
I'm sure that the hard disk is not defective, because I have tried with another one (same model), and the same problem occurs.
I also tried to flash the Bios to the latest release (1.9), same problem...
My Config:
- MSI PT880 Neo-LSR with latest BIOS available (V1.9)
- INTEL Pentium 4C 2.4 Ghz
- 2 x 256 Infineon PC3200 (Dual mode)
- SAPPHIRE 9800 Pro
- ATA Hard drive: 40 Gb Maxtor (6E030L0) on first IDE controller
- SATA Hard drive: 80 Gb Maxtor (6L080M0) on first SATA controller
- Yamaha CRW-F1E and PIONNER DRV-105 optical drive on second IDE controller
- Win XP SP2

By "booting outside the case", you mean: extracting the motherboard from the case, putting it on a table, and trying to boot with only the mobo, the cpu, a new memory module, a simple video card, and the Sata HDD
I can try that but it' not easy... and the mobo is out of warranty
Don't you think that it could be a Sata Bios bug that appears only with this Maxtor hard drive model
As I've just bought this hard drive, I think that I'm going to exchange it for a Western Digital or a Seagate...

[VIA] KT6 Delta hangs when I install SATA disk

I've had a lot of problems with my PC - maybe related to the mobo, maybe not. I have a KT6 Delta LSR - and was running XP SP2 with a SATA disk on it. Not RAID - just standalone. It ran OK for about 4 months, then it crashed hard. For the last two weeks I'm trying to get my system back, but its not looking good. I think the CPU or mobo overheated - it was running about 62C - then I installed a new CPU fan and tried to render a DVD when it locked up and apparently wrecked my disk. I bought a brand new SATA disk and a new IDE disk. I installed XP fresh on the IDE disk. That runs OK. I removed the "old" disk (4 months old) from the system and installed a brand new SATA disk. But when I install the VIA SATA drivers, XP falls apart. By that I mean it can take up to 45 minutes to boot up (with an Athlon 3000+, 1Gb memory) and it acts VERY sluggish when I do finally get in.
I don't know what to do. I'd like to try to recover data from my "old" disk to the new SATA disk, but the SATA drivers make working in XP impossible. I have bought a new motherboard - an ABIT board that supports SATA, but I hate to go to the trouble of replacing the mobo, if the problem is with SATA. Maybe SATA is not ready for general use yet? Is it still being developed and maybe it is generally unstable? As long as I'm, with IDE, everything seems stable. What should I do to get data off my SATA drive? I'm sorry I ever went SATA, that's for sure. Never again.
Should I install XP on the new SATA drive like I did back in May and see if I can get data off the "old" drive - then maybe copy it to a network location somewhere? I have two fairly new 250 Gb. SATA drives that are basically useless. Unbelievable.

I did not change the CPU. Just the CPU's fan. I did not reset the CMOS after doing that. I have a Thermaltake power supply and 1GB of Corsair DDR 4000 - 2x512mb.
In another post, I found a link to a post at Western Digital where WDC claims that the disk I have is the next generation of SATA and may not be compatible with the chipset in the MSI motherboard. They recommend to jumper two pins on the disk to help out. The only thing is that my WDC disk has been running OK since May and is the one that recently crashed. I bought a Seagate SATA disk to try to restore my system to, but whenever I hook up the Seagate, the system takes over an hour to boot up. Without the Seagate it takes a few minutes. I think that maybe the Seagate is also too new for this motherboard.
I don't know how the consumer is supposed to know if a disk is compatible with a motherboard. I bought a SATA disk to use in a SATA equipped motherboard. Apparently newer versions of SATA are not backwards compatible but there is no easy way to know this in advance or to find out if your disk will work.

Can hard disk be replaced with larger capacity of SSD or SATA disk?

Weighing on buying a Twist, can I replace the hard disk with larger capacity SSD or SATA disk? Is there any capacity limit on SATA disk? Are SSD and SATA disks compatible for Twist (say replace SSD disk with SATA disk or vice versa?
Many thanks.

the Twist's hdd is a 2.5 inch 7 mm drive, which you can upgrade to any other SATA disk of this size either platter or SSD.
Regards,
Jin Li
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How can I upgrade from OSX 10.7 to 10.9 on my 2012 mac mini? (2.3 GHz, 4 GB, 500 GB SATA disk) I don't want OSX Yosemite.

How can I upgrade from OSX 10.7 to 10.9 on my 2012 mac mini? (2.3 GHz, 4 GB, 500 GB SATA disk) I don't want OSX Yosemite.

If your Mini shipped with OS X 10.7 Lion, then it was considered a 2011 build model, or before.
The Mini 2012 model, is considered a Late 2012, & the last one where RAM could be upgraded.
And it shipped with Mountain Lion 10.8, which is a fairly OK system if one had older software.
(However mine shipped in Dec 2014, with Mavericks 10.9.0, and was built in January 2014.)
There were a few different build versions of Late 2012 Mac Mini, the i5 or i7 processor,
in dual-core or quad-core, and some CTO or built-to-order versions with other specs.
You can buy Mountain Lion from online Apple Store, & use a download code emailed to you to
get the Mt. Lion 10.8 from Apple Servers; this would be about it, since Mavericks isn't available.
So hopefully that is an option you can exercise; in addition the computer may prefer more RAM.
Good luck & happy computing!

How to change SATA disk controller on Toshiba Satellite A135 s2276

Hello guys, I know that there was a similar question already (kindly answered by Mike), but my situation differs a little.
I'm trying to install the SSD intead of my hard drive.
Problem is that even though BIOS can see the SSD I cannot install Windows on it (tried XP and 7). Cannot even format it from installation disk (it just hangs).
When I hook it up on a usb cable, it works fine (SSD). I can format it (from windows) and copy files on it like and external drive it doesn't have any issues.
When I try to install windows on it (either from a CD or usb) it hangs. The same situation is if I try to install the system when the SSD is in usb port or if I put it inside, where my hard drive originally is (SATA connection). It just seets there. Comes to copying files and then stops.
I think I'd need to change the SATA disk controller in BIOS (sata to ide or compatibility mode) in order for it to work, however there's no such an option in the latest BIOS for this model (1.60).
Any help appreciated, thanks Miki
ps. update - I succesfully installed windows on another Toshiba (which has the option to change the sata controller in bios), using the same SSD so I think this is definitely the problem. Any ideas apart from buying a newer comp?

Hi
If such option is NOT available in BIOS then you will be no able to change this!!!
In such case the HDD controller will say in SATA mode and if you want to install an operating system then you need to install the SATA drivers firstly!
Bye

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