Maxtor diamondmax 300gb drive problems

I recently had my HD RMA'd after having tons of crashes which I put down to driver errors and such. The crashes turned into BSOD's and I ran the maxtor test floppy and it gave a error message and a RMS number.
Maxtor sent the new drive to me today.
Windows install went fine, then after installing a few drivers It would hang during restart and restart itself again before fully loading windows. It did this a few times. Then It got stuck on the detecting harddrive part of booting up.
Ran the maxtor test floppy on it and it passed the fast and normal test.
I just know it's gonna go wobbly again :/ I'm 100% sure it's a HD problem.
Not sure what to do now, I would ideally just like a refund and get a different drive. ( the PC didn't crash once in over a week while I used my old IDE 80gig drive while waiting for this ) Maybe I got another dodgy drive or perhaps my motherboard just doesn't like these HD's?
I did notice in one of the bios's it mentioned support for maxtor 300gb drives was added, but maybe its not totally sorted.
I have the drive plugged into the SATA1 port. Is that the correct place for it? Only running 1 HD.

Quote from: Buckox on 25-June-05, 15:20:51
I have had nothing but problems with MSI Nforce4 boards and my Maxtor 300gb drive.
The only bios for the 7125 board that supports it is 1.2.
Bought a Hitachi Deskstar 180gb drive yesterday and have not had a single problem.
This is the first and last time that I will ever buy MSI motherboards.
The backup on bios's from MSI is abysmal they always seem to cure one problem and create another at the same time.
Buying a new hardrive was the only way I could flash to a bios that supports my new sandiego CPU.
I think I'll get myself one of those as well as it doesn't have NCQ or anything. If the shop wont swap the maxtor drive for me I guess I'll have to hang onto it and hope that at somepoint there will be a new bios that supports the maxtor HD again.
( btw everytime I run msi live monitor now, it cant getpast the searching mainboard bios version of hte auto search :/ )

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hello.
i wanted to know, if anyone knows a working solution for the problem that the nforce3 chipset / nvidia sata controller / mobo bios or just (some?) k8n neo2 mobos causes the system to freeze while booting when a maxtor diamondmax 10 is installed?
for anyone who still has problems: a temporary solution for 1-drive-users is to plug the drive to the sata4 port (right between the agp and the cpu socket), instead of plugging it to sata1, which would be the correct procedure under ordinary circumstances though.
i found out that my own system was highly unstable as long as i connected the drive to one of the first two sata ports. the other ones worked better. is the problem limited to sata 1/2 on everyone's board? if not, it would be RMA-able.
but there is another thing besides the instability of these expensive pieces of trash (sorry, no other hard drive and mobo has given me a harder time yet!) that bothers me more:
why is my maxtor diamondmax 10 6b300s0 so noisy? on idle it runs very smooth and is quiet, but under heavy load it almost roars as loud as my old u2w-scsi drives i had back in 1995. could it be that windows or the sata controller does not turn on the cache?
i hope, somebody can share his experience.
wan-hi

I've got the neo2 and 2 Diamondmax 10 Maxtors in RAID1. I've had loads of trouble as well... Today is my first day without a freeze and hard reboot needed. I started building (slowly mind you) about 3 weeks ago.
If this is actually stable now, perhaps you can try a similar setup. All these steps had frequent hangs and re-attempts.. I got through in the end tho. (Doesn't instill confidence that you have a stable build tho!!)
I have the 2 drives on SATA 3,4
All SATA BIOS settings are enabled (inc port 1,2 settings)
I used the 2 RAID drivers on the supplied floppy disk (same revisions as on the website currently)
I installed WinXP with service Pack 1 built in (is that what people mean when they say a streamlined XP install?)
After updating all the motherboard drivers etc, I installed Service Pack 2. With SP2 I had frequent unrepeatable hangs, but cpu burn type programs and games wouldn't trigger it.
Only office type work/browsing seemed to kill it.
I switched to a USB mouse from PS2, and that seemed to help.
Last thing I tried was uninstalling SP2 and it's lasted all day now. Longest strtech previously was 3,4 hours of intermittent use.
I agree with you about the noisy Maxtors though.. I had a Seagate Barracuda before and that was really silent. These don't whine at all but clatter when seeking.
Apparently with the Diamondmax 9's you could use a Maxtor utility to quieten (slow) the seeks, and a IBM/Hitachi util also worked.
I can't get either to work cos the 10's are SATA only drives. Maxtor util only works with IDE (or perhaps SATA non RAID), and IBM just fails to see them.. shame. I think the Maxtor util might work with some other, older SATA controllers... have to track someone down with a compatible setup who doesn't mind me carving up their machine. Actually haven't tried adjusting when the drives aren't RAIDed.. hmmm.
jon

845PE Max (6580 v.2.0) and Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus - Problem!

Hi!
My mobo (845PE Max - MS 6580 v.2.0) detecting my hard disk (Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus 80GB ATA133 7200rpm) as the drive working in UltraDMA/2 mode (ATA33). What is wrong? How can I set it to work in mode UltraDMA/5 (ATA100)???
Please, help me as quick as possible.
Best regards
Martin "Kenickie"

System: MS Windows XP Pro. No Service Pack 1 installed yet.
But it doesn't matter.
Disk is recognized as UDMA/2 by BIOS!!! I upgraded BIOS to newest (3.40) but it didn't help.
This Maxtor is connected as Primary Master, and there is a CD-Recorder (TEAC CD-W516EB) on the same cable as Primary Slave. Teac is also recognized as UDMA/2. At the secondary Controller I have CD-ROM Drive (TEAC x32).

Maxtor USB hard drive problems

I cannot for the life of me configure my kernel to see my usb Maxtor hard drive correctly, I've booted into knoppix a few times to see if it works and yes it does. It registers as /dev/sda1 and I can run cfdisk on it no problem.
But on my box all dmesg says is..
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usb 1-1: khubd timed out on ep0out
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usb 1-1: khubd timed out on ep0in
usb 1-1: khubd timed out on ep0out
usb 1-1: khubd timed out on ep0out
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I took a look at knoppix' lsmod and tried to emulate that as closely as I can on my box (allthough I build everything in.)
If anyone can help, I'd be forever greatful.

The arch default 2.6 kernel w/ udev makes /dev/sda great.
It registers it in dmesg as..
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c05d3c00(lo)
usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using address 2
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
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Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 240119808 512-byte hdwr sectors (122941 MB)
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
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nls_cp437 6016 1
vfat 15360 1
fat 46880 1 vfat
nvidia 3465564 12
usb_storage 70848 1
ohci_hcd 22660 0
via_ircc 25872 0
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crc_ccitt 2432 1 irda
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8139too 26368 0
mii 5632 1 8139too
crc32 4736 1 8139too
snd_ens1371 24548 3
snd_rawmidi 26276 1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device 8456 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm 101508 2 snd_ens1371
snd_timer 27140 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10248 1 snd_pcm
snd_ac97_codec 73808 1 snd_ens1371
snd 58980 11 snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec
soundcore 10848 1 snd
gameport 5120 1 snd_ens1371
pci_hotplug 13060 0
tsdev 8128 0
evdev 9984 0
ntfs 156432 1
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Will a Maxtor DiamondMax 11 SATA drive work in a G4?

I'm torn between a couple of Maxtor internal drives to add to my G4 (Mirrored Doors) and for the sake of futureproofing I thought I'd better go for the DiamondMax 11 Drive (500GB) which looks to be very good.
However I'm having a lot of problems trying to find if there will be any compatability issues with my G4.
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Maxtor DiamondMax 10 No Longer Recognized (10.7.3)

I finally upgraded my Rev A G5 PowerMac and purchased a new 27" i7 iMac - I was extatic! Everything went well the first day while I was setting it up. I had all my iPhoto and iTunes files on an internal SATA drive (Maxtor DiamondMax 10) on my PowerMac and put it in an external enclouse so I could just pick up where I left off. The iMac recognized it right away and I was back in business.
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Any help would be great!

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Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 Compatible with My G5 1.87 Tower (2003)?

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Just go out and buy a new SATA drive or two from OWC
http://www.macsales.com
The DM9 is older than your G5, and the DM10 was the first Maxtor that turned heads and was a winner (as was DMIII). But drives have come a long way.
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External Drive Problem - Rampant Issue?

I've been searching the Internet for a day now and I see postings all over the place with the same questions and no real answers. I have a 1st Gen iMac G5 running 10.4.6. I have an external drive (the original HD in a SATA->Firewire enclosure) that has worked flawlessley since I had my logic board replaced under the extended Apple warrenty debacle regarding bad capacitors. Just 2 days ago, the drive become unmountable and all of the data disappeared. Drive Utilities won't recognize it, DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro 4 similarly won't help. Figuring the drive had just upped and died, I picked up a Maxtor 300GB drive and put it in the enclosure. Same thing. It mounts, but drops whenever I try to write to it. Neither Backup nor Retrospect can complete a backup to the drive. Other Firewire devices (iSight, 2nd Gen iPod) work fine and System Profiler says the FireWire ports are functional. I tried using Backup and the drive in question (the Maxtor) to backup my G4 PowerBook Ti and it worked flawlessly. Clearly it's an issue with the iMac. I've seen similar postings here, on MacFixit, MacOSXHints, etc. and have yet to see a plausible explanation. I'm open to ideas. I'm not comfortable having this iMac, which has most of my important files, unprotected by backup as it has proved flaky in the past.
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Matt,
These problems have been cropping up long before the iMac G5. Read this short post by member Donna Thomas to avoid getting too negative about the situation.
For some users, the use of more than one firewire port at a time can initiate the problem. Something to do with power draw vs the limits of the power supply, I think. I'd recommend trying a PRAM reset, and also a SMU reset (this is performed differently for your model G5 than it is done for the other iMacs): SMU reset instructions (just ignore the title of the article).
While you're booting from your install disc to access Disk Utility to perform Disk Repair, or using the Disk Utility from your Applications/Utilities folder to perform Permissions Repair, or whatever other utilities you're using, at least once shut down and then cold start rather than restart. It used to be, and I think still is, that these are different processes for a Mac, and it just might contribute to recovering the use of the external drive on your Firewire port.

Sata Not Recognised As A 300gb Drive

Does anyone know why the drive is only recognised in windows as a 160Gb Drive. It really is a Maxline 300Gb 16mb cache SATA.

Im also having problems with a K8 Neo 2 plat. it works ok with one 300Gb Maxtor but add a second 300Gb drive and it plays up like you would not believe.
basicly it wont do a warm start, it hangs and the drives make odd sounds like they are seeking for somthing,
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Maxtor DiamondMax HD Compatibility with Mac?

Hello Forum,
I'm about to install a new Internal Hard Drive in Bay 2 of my G5 Dual.
Calling all you tekheads out there being A1 Macintosh savvy! Can someone confirm that the Maxtor DiamondMax +22 7200RPM SATA II/300 500GB 32MB Cache - OEM Internal Hard Disc will be fully compatible with my 1.8 Ghz G5 Dual Power Mac before I begin the installation?
Any tips for a smooth install, formatting, partitioning etc?
Just for peace of mind.
Cheers,
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Maxtor DiamondMax 80gig support in x86Sol8

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Floppy drive problem in Win2000 and older

Hi,
I have a problem with floppy. Does'n regonize where problem is (Driver, Controller,BIOS...).
Configuration:
Intel Pentium 4 HT 2,8GHz Prescott (some models have 3,0GHz Prescott)
MSI 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728 Ver:2)
2x256MB DDR400 Kingstone working in DualChannel mode
GeForce 4 MX 440 with AGP 8x
3COM Fast Etherlink 3C905-TX-M
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Mitsumi (some models APLS) Floppy drive 3.5" 1,44MB
HDD Western Digital Caviar WD800JB or Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 60GB
Case with AXT Power Supply 300W (some models have Fortron)
Symptoms:
- Floppy read disks without problems on any OS
- Floppy can't write any data to disks on Win2000, Win98, SuSE91
- Floppy writing data without problem if you have WinXP-SP1 and SP2
- Data writed on any OS without WinXP making disk unusable (format on WinXP will make disk useless)
* Writing data - Create folder, copy files, format disk
Tested without resolution problem:
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- Change Floppy Drive is irelevant
- Change floppy data cable is irelevant
- Using WinXP drivers for FDD and LPC Controller in Win2000 does'n work
- Update OS (without XP) does'n help
- Updating BIOS does'n help
Thanx
Petr Lukas
CR Ministry of Health

Sorry, all periferials are set to enabled with defined ports etc.
Yea, trying move floppy between working pc and this crazy machines and its indepedent on any floppy drive, floppy disk and fdc cable... This is true...
When you boot another system, floppy is connected, reading is ok. But when you try to write anything, system report "Incorrect parameter" and that's all...
I managing network with Win2K/XP/98/Suse91/HP-UX10 with exchange/oracle and now more resolution of this type of problem, but this problem is absolutly independence on anything...
And with OS, this problem we have about 2 moths ago. Before I post it here, try install licenced systems on this pc. Trying win2000 (on this system we found the problem) after then try win98, suse91 and oldest msdos 6.22. No one of this systems can work. But last suggestion, Prescott procesor made in system some differet. Next week we try change processor type Prescott to Northwood. Some people say its work...
I post it new info, when we have new resolution of this (i think incredible) change processor.
To your
Thanx lot for your resolutions.... Anything we try........

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Hi all forum! i´m new here. I have a MSI K8N DIAMOND SLI board, all is ok but the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200gb is only 33gb in the Bios and in Windows XP SP2. The Jummpers are fine and i chaged it for all positions and the result was the same.
And in the Maxtor page it says
https://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=1062&p_sid=3mOkRPXh&p_lva=#
The Solution 1: I reformated the hard drive severals times and the same result :(
The Solution 2: I have de newer official bios 1.7
The Solution 3. I have formateated with ntfs
I don´t know how resolve this problem, thanks for your time reading my post and sorry for my bad grammar.
See You!

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I need a second drive for my G5 and i'm have three choices...
1. Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250Gb Serial ATA II (3.0Gb/s) 7200 rpm 16Mb
2. Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250Gb Serial ATA 150 7200 rpm 16 Mb
3. Western Digital 250Gb 8Mb SATA 150 (the standard HD that comes with the G5)
My G5 2.7 Dual Processor is the standard out of the box machine and i would like to know if my first option will give me that data rate without any other upgrades and wether it's compatible or not, if i get only the SATA 150 speed of the first using a jumper it will be fine since later on i plan on buying more upgrades and will be abble to get that speed up, for now i'm just concerned will it mount the drive with or without a jumper.

There isn't going to be any difference between the first two, except how new the drive is (revision and firmware). Why not spend $20 more and get the 300GB model? seems to be one of the most popular in performance.

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