Maxtor SATA 120s

[Art Wakefield]

I have a machine with two Seagate SATA drives on a RAID0. I bought two
Maxtor SATAs from NewEgg. They arrived early and I was dissappointed that I
hadn't done my research on the model # better. They seem to be converted
IDE (still have the jumper block and IDE power connector in addition to the
SATA stuff).

I'm trying to put them in my GA-7NNXP with the Seagates. They are not being
detected. Is it because they are converted IDEs and still have the jumper
blocks? Regular SATA drives don't use jumpers it seems. Any way to work
around this? Or am I hosed? If so, I can use them in another machine that
has no SATA (SATA cards don't cost too much). I sure would love to add them
to the Seagate array as this is the machine I edit video on.

Any help is appreciated.

Art

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a machine with two Seagate SATA drives on a RAID0. I bought two
Maxtor SATAs from NewEgg. They arrived early and I was dissappointed that I
hadn't done my research on the model # better. They seem to be converted
IDE (still have the jumper block and IDE power connector in addition to the
SATA stuff).

I'm trying to put them in my GA-7NNXP with the Seagates. They are not being
detected. Is it because they are converted IDEs and still have the jumper blocks?
Nope.

Regular SATA drives don't use jumpers it seems.
Correct.

Any way to work around this?

Work out why they cant be seen. It wont
be because they are a hybrid drive.

Or am I hosed?
Nope.

If so, I can use them in another machine that has no SATA
(SATA cards don't cost too much). I sure would love to add
them to the Seagate array as this is the machine I edit video on.

Its likely a more basic problem of setting up the drives on that
rather weird motherboard implementation of hard drive controllers.

 

[Art Wakefield]

Its likely a more basic problem of setting up the drives on that
rather weird motherboard implementation of hard drive controllers.

Thanks Rod. That is reassuring. I'll dink with it more tonight and let you
know what happens.


Art

 

[Rod Speed]

Thanks Rod. That is reassuring. I'll dink with it
more tonight and let you know what happens.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7WwSb.3148$gl2.2385@lakeread05
May be relevant. Its another Gigabyte motherboard with a similar problem.

I meant to include that in the previous replay
and then the brain fade got me, again.