need help with SATA drive

mike1224 · #1 03-06-2006, 10:38 PM

ok, i built a computer the other day, and am trying to use a SATA drive. Specifically a hitatchi desktar 250gb drive. I am using the SATA ports that are on my mother board (abit NF7-S2G). when I acces the CMOS at power-up and go through options, it recognizes my hard drive as channel 3 master. sorry i can't be more specific right now, but any help will be aprecaited

Oz · #2 03-07-2006, 12:57 AM

What jumper setting is the hard drive on? Try it on Master and Cable Select, and post your results.

mike1224 · #3 03-07-2006, 02:08 AM

its jumperless.

Oz · #4 03-07-2006, 04:41 AM

Hmmm....have you tried updating your BIOS?

mike1224 · #5 03-07-2006, 10:18 AM

thats next. i'm taking the HD out of this computer and putting it into the newer one.

Oz · #6 03-07-2006, 05:17 PM

I don't get the Channel 3 master thing in CMOS. Shouldn't it be primary master? Anyway, the BIOS update should solve any size problems.

dave92cherokee · #7 03-12-2006, 02:58 PM

Channel 3 master is the hard drive. SATA drives are jumperless because there's no way to run two on the same connection as with IDE drives. It says channel 3 because you have 2 ide channels that take precedent over the sata drive. The computer does not need a bios flash because of this as it will still work fine.

mike1224 · #8 03-12-2006, 03:06 PM

unplug the CD &DVD roms, and I should be fine??

s10blazerman4x4 · #9 03-13-2006, 01:43 AM

did ya get this fixed yet mike?Im following you around AF

mike1224 · #10 03-13-2006, 01:47 AM

nope... i think i'll throw in my IDE drives in for now.

mike1224 · #11 03-18-2006, 08:39 PM

ok guys I apprecaite the help now heres another thing. I've got WinXP on a IDE drive, works good, with RAID enabled, it shows the IDE drive and 1 of the 2 SATA drives! i've been messing around the BIOS and all but no avail. any reccomendations?

circeseye · #12 03-21-2006, 02:55 AM

im not sure if this will help BUT my comp is sata and when i upgraded i didnt know that each power cable is for a certain sata plug. sata 1 has its own sata power plug an so forth when i put mine in i pluged in sata 3's power plug with sata 1's connecter and got what you were discribing.
so i guess what im trying to say is try the different power plugs you might have pluged in the wrong sata power one.

i hope i made some sense of this kind of hard to discribe

mike1224 · #13 03-21-2006, 03:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by circeseye

im not sure if this will help BUT my comp is sata and when i upgraded i didnt know that each power cable is for a certain sata plug. sata 1 has its own sata power plug an so forth when i put mine in i pluged in sata 3's power plug with sata 1's connecter and got what you were discribing.
so i guess what im trying to say is try the different power plugs you might have pluged in the wrong sata power one.

i hope i made some sense of this kind of hard to discribe

not a whole lotta sense, but it gives me some things to try.

circeseye · #14 03-22-2006, 08:32 PM

ill try again

lets say you have 4 sata slots and each is numbered
sata data plug 1
sata data plug 2
sata data plug 3
sata data plug 4

now the power also has 4 plugs also numbered
sata power 1
sata power 2
sata power 3
sata power 4

you have to use the data and power cables that are numbered the same.(some boards may not be numbered)
if you try to use sata data 1 and power 3 the drive will not work

i hopw this explains alittle bit better

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