I've done a lot of ranting about broken hard drives recently and it was starting to become a joke. Two computers in regularly use and whichever one I used any Sata drive started to go wrong in a matter of weeks.
I've just spent two days sorting out the latest disaster.
When I got the motherboards for these, Sata had been out a while and they had Sata sockets on the board so clearly it should work.
The drives you get now are mostly Sata II, but are supposed to be backwards compatible with Sata I.
I had found places telling you to set a jumper to limit them to 1.5gb/s instead of 3gbs for older boards, but the seagate ones come like that when you get them so it wasn't simply that. Now though I found a list of chipsets which never really were compatible and of course both mine are on it.
It's sort of bad news, but I'm actually pleased now I have a likely reason why. I was beginning to think it was pixies.
I will use IDE drives until I replace these motherboards. I would have done so in the first place, but they practically stopped selling them and it seemed common sense to get the most modern drive possible as I'd be reusing them in future PCs
and of course both mine are on it.
Of Course Indeed. You didn't really need to check that list did you, it was obvious.
I am wondering if I should stock up on an IDE drive now while they still exist but knowing my luck my pixies would break my PC and all the spare spare parts in disgust and it would be redundant. How dare you disbelieve in pixies of course they are real. My toasters told me so.
and the whole concept of setting a jumper for any reason at all should be outlawed and punished by dalek exterminations.Not pixies but piskies. Ach crivens!Piskies it is yes
Furby, you're right. There was a certain inevitability about it all. Like hearing someone drop and plate and knowing it would be your favourite one... and as for jumpers. Extermination is too good for em!
They are too small and fiddly and there never seem to be enough of them around (maybe the piskies steal them).
Western Digital says on its site where to put the supplied jumper, but on the drive it says it does NOT need one and doesn't come with one. It probably explodes if you put one on anyway.
