Anyone using a Rosewill Blackhawk, AND a 6G SSD in the top docking bay?

[VirtualLarry]

Just wondering if the wiring to the HD docking bay on the top of the case is robust enough for SATA6G. I trying plugging a Mushkin 240GB Chronos Deluxe up there, and had some severe issues. Eventually, the drive wouldn't even detect in BIOS.

I'm trying to figure out if it's the SSD, or if I have severe SATA6G cabling issues.

My mobo is an ASrock 990FX Extreme4, with six native AMD SATA6G ports.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, I just took the misbehaving SSD out of the HD dock on top, and connected it to SATA 6G port 0, using the existing cable which is a SATA (1)-rated cable, and I was able to install Win7 64-bit HP just fine.

So it appears, that the cable that Rosewill used for the top HD docking bay, is of INFERIOR QUALITY TO EVEN A SATA 1 CABLE. How do you like them apples?

 

[VirtualLarry]

So that Google can find this thread:


The Rosewill Blackhawk case SATA HD dock is incompatible with SATA6G or SATA III 3 SSD drives, it causes a problem or problems.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

You solved your own problem. Nice work

 

[mrsteve0924]

hey i know this is a very old thread but finally know what was wrong with my blackhawk case. it was killing me for 2 years now.

thanks virtuallarry!!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

hey i know this is a very old thread but finally know what was wrong with my blackhawk case. it was killing me for 2 years now.

thanks virtuallarry!!

Jeez! To quote President Slick Willie -- "Ah feel your pain!"

The only thing I can say about that concerns an attitude to take in troubleshooting: think of all the possible, even unlikely causes, and rank-order them by things like replacement-cost and "degree-of-trouble" in trouble-shooting.

I've got a peculiar situation regarding six SATA cables on my motherboard. The cables sit next to the intake of a CM Crossflow Barrel Fan Installed to push exhaust out the right-hand side-panel. The blades of the fan are so close to the motherboard that you cannot use straight-ended SATA cables: they must be angled. So you say "OK! Fine! No problem!"

Right -- for the cable-plug angles that route the cable downward -- perhaps to pass through a hole in the motherboard to route up the right-side of the drive-bay column in the case. Wrong for "left-angle" plugs, when you can only find so many resellers offering them, and then limited cable-length options available. So if I can only find 18" or 12" left-angle SATA cables, then I must connect them to the upper set of ports on the motherboard SATA port assembly. "Upper" as in "most-removed from the top side of the board." So I can afford three internal SATA drives nearest the motherboard connection, and three hot-swap, eSATA or optical drives in the 5.25" drive-bay column using "right-angle" 1-meter cables.

To change a cable at the motherboard, I must remove the entire Crossflow Fan assembly. It's just extra time and effort with a certain tedium. So I made sure to get quality cables and put short-sighted problems with configuration changes behind me by installing all six cables to the ports prior to securing the Crossflow -- as long as the SATA cables work flawlessly. The cable is installed whether it is used at the drive/device end or not. So -- there's high replacement-cost in time and effort, but low degree-of-trouble. That is, "degree of trouble" is the monetary expense to replace and the complexity of the replaced item. Ordinarily, proving a cable to be 'bad" should be an easy thing.

 

[mrsteve0924]

so i emailed rosewill support and they agreed to send me a new dock with cables for free. very cool!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

It's nice when you need a manufacturer's support and they make you feel like a five-year-old on Santa's knee before Xmas.