SATA 750 G drive

[Terry]

When I plug in my new drive into the existing controller it hangs
The screen shows

WDC WD 5000 AAKS 00TMA 5 000 000
WDC WD 7500 AAKS 00RBA

Or something close. I can't read my own writing sometimes.

If I unplug the new 750 it will boot.
It hangs trying to read it.

Did I buy the wrong kind of drive for my controller?

 

[Flasherly]

When I plug in my new drive into the existing controller it hangs
The screen shows

WDC WD 5000 AAKS 00TMA 5 000 000
WDC WD 7500 AAKS 00RBA

Or something close. I can't read my own writing sometimes.

If I unplug the new 750 it will boot.
It hangs trying to read it.

Did I buy the wrong kind of drive for my controller?

What's WD support or their site say about setting one up, minimum
requirements, etc...

I haven't heard anything about large drives and native MB support/
issues. Then again biggest I know is someone that told me he got a
pair of WD 1.5T drives from CompUSA going out of business - they're
enclosed and USB interfaced tho.

 

[Terry]

Not likely.

I had one DOA from Newegg. It would not partition and format. New one works
fine.

The drive works fine in my main machine. I just partitioned it and
formated it in one machine.

When I put it back in my old machine it hangs at boot.

I think it may be my mobo. It is a KT7A IDE RAID with a SATA PCI card
installed with one working SATA drive.

A WD500 works fine with it.

 

[Terry]

When I plug in my new drive into the existing controller it hangs
The screen shows

WDC WD 5000 AAKS 00TMA 5 000 000
WDC WD 7500 AAKS 00RBA

Or something close. I can't read my own writing sometimes.

If I unplug the new 750 it will boot.
It hangs trying to read it.

Did I buy the wrong kind of drive for my controller?

The problem turned out that my old controller did not support the fast
speed. I had to add a jumper to the drive. (good thing I save those)

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1337&p_created=1112379341

The answer came from emailing WD and reading their support FAQs

Thanks everyone

 

[Paul]

What is the SATA PCI card and what is the BIOS version on the
motherboard and the firmware version on the card?

Also, I think your motherboard is an Abit board, but the Abit US
site doesn't get any hits for KT7A. Please confirm that the
manufacturer of the motherboard is http://www.abit.com.tw

You have to use the motherboard pulldown menu, and select Socket A.
The manual for the KT7A is here.

ftp://ftp.abitshop.com/pub//manual/english/kr7a.zip

Paul

 

[Terry]

AFAICS, your other WD drive should be using the same jumper:http://www.wdc.com/en/products/productspecs.asp?driveid=301

Interface SATA 3 Gb/s

- Franc Zabkar

Well it is broke again.
I have tried every combination I know of.
Making one drive 0 then the other 1
Putting jumpers on each/both drives


The 500 always works and the 750 now makes it hang.

If I make the 500 0 the boot will report it and is size and report the
750 but hangs when it reports its size.

If I make the 750 drive 0 the boot will report the drive but hangs in
reporting the size. It doesn't report the 500.

 

[Terry]

You have to use the motherboard pulldown menu, and select Socket A.
The manual for the KT7A is here.

ftp://ftp.abitshop.com/pub//manual/english/kr7a.zip

Paul

Thanks
I was unable to find this at the site because I didn't know socket
type and chipset.

Having the manuals grouped like this make sense to eggheads, but it
does little for us little guys.