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    SOLVED: Samsung F3 HDD on SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) of P67 chipset

    Can it do anything if the drive doesn't show up in the BIOS? I had already tried it, and it couldn't detect my drive. My Samsung F2EG, older than the F3 which died, works fine with the Intel SATA 3 port. I don't think that there are drives which are too old, but rather drives with a bug in...
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    SOLVED: Samsung F3 HDD on SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) of P67 chipset

    I suspect that they were manufactured after may 2010 and already include the fixed firmware.
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    SOLVED: Samsung F3 HDD on SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) of P67 chipset

    I actually updated the firmware when the drive was still recognized the day before it was dead. So I don't know which firmware I had when the weird noises happened. It was whichever firmware was flashed on the F3 drives manufactured around end of 2009 / beginning of 2010 (I'll have to check the...
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    SOLVED: Samsung F3 HDD on SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) of P67 chipset

    Hi everyone, I've had an issue recently involving 2 P67 motherboards (MSI P67A-GD65 and Asus P8P67 Pro) and a Samsung F3 hard drive (HD502HJ) which used to work without a hitch. I plugged it in a P67 SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) port of the MSI motherboard and it only got recognized once every 4 or 5 boot...