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

VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

No Lifer
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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!!
 
mrsteve0924 said:
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!!
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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.
 
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.
 
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