Problem with 600GB VelociRaptor.

[Synomenon]

I just received a new 600GB VelociRaptor. Trying to wipe it, but keep getting errors. Tried wiping it with DBAN first, but it immediately terminates with a non-fatal error.

When I try Killdisk I get this:

(AHCI and native IDE mode for SATA enabled in BIOS):

Killdisk's main screen quickly scrolls up to be replaced by what's in the image.



When I disable AHCI and change SATA to legacy IDE mode it does the same thing except the errors come more slowly:

I had my original 600GB VelociRaptor replaced because the exact same thing was happening with that one. Anyone have any idea what's going on here?
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[taltamir]

Since this is the second one to have the same issue, I am gussing it is either a problem with your SATA controller or your PSU

 

[Synomenon]

I hope it's not the SATA controller. This Gigabyte B3 board is new. I'm not having any problems with a WD RE4-GP or Intel 160GB G2 on the same board. The 160GB G2 and the 600GB VelociRaptor are both on the 6GBps SATA ports.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I installed a raptor 600gb last week and for a mechanical drive its fast but doesn't even compare to the sanforce 1222 boot drive I'm using. If this is the second drive having trouble have you tried a new cable and/or moving to a different port?

 

[Zap]

If two different drives did the same thing, maybe the VelociRaptor 600GB firmware is incompatible with such software?

 

[Synomenon]

It was the SATA-III port. There's nothing wrong with the port since it works with my other drives. The 600GB VelociRaptor just doesn't want to work on either of those SATA-III ports. I moved it to a SATA-II port and it's working fine now.

 

[Synomenon]

Well, the problem seems to be fixed now. I had another problem with this board having a "phantom" floppy drive controller in the BIOS and showing up in Windows. Gigabyte sent me a beta BIOS that fixed the phantom floppy controller problem. After I flashed the BIOS, it fixed the phantom floppy drive controller problem AND these SATA-III problems went away too.

 

[Zap]

:thumbsup:

Don't you love paying good money to beta test hardware and games?

 

[taltamir]

:thumbsup:

Don't you love paying good money to beta test hardware and games?

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Unfortunately it's usually worse than that... you get buggy unfinished products that never get finished. The company just ignores the known bugs lists and moves on to new things.