sata drive issue

djn602

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BIOS on my Intel D865GBF board does not see my WD Raptor SATA drive. I am not sure what the heck could be wrong. Will try a new SATA cable in the morning I guess.... Thoughts?

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Zelmo3

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Did the board see the drive previously? On my nForce2 board, the BIOS doesn't deal directly with SATA. There's a separate BIOS for the SATA controller that comes up after the POST.
 

mechBgon

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Originally posted by: djn602
BIOS on my Intel D865GBF board does not see my WD Raptor SATA drive. I am not sure what the heck could be wrong. Will try a new SATA cable in the morning I guess.... Thoughts?

Thanks
Welcome to the Forums djn602 :) Grab your mobo's manual and look at page 114 where they show the BIOS's Advanced > Drive Configuration menu. You want that Enhanced mode they've got listed under "ATA/IDE Configuration." Also notice the items on the next page, which should show the SATA devices if it's detecting them.

Also, maybe this is a silly question, but did you remember to give your SATA drive a power cable as well as the SATA data cable? :eek:
 

djn602

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Yep, she's got juice, spins up and does the initial read. I saw the enhanced and it is on, the drive is not seen in the list...argh.
 

mechBgon

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Darn! :p Yeah, try a different cable, and also try your other SATA fitting on the motherboard too, if you didn't already.
 

djn602

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I will have to pick up a cable in the morning (if I can find one here in po dunk missouri). I guess if that doesn't work I will be on the phone will Intel or WD. I don't think I know anyone else that has a SATA controller....

Thanks for the help guys!
 

djn602

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I enhance my fun even more I bought a PCI SATA controller as well. Tried just the new cable and no luck so then I tried the new controller and no luck. The new PCI controller is working since I hit F6 in XP setup and installed the driver for the card and it did see the old 40 gig ATA drive I attached to it... Called WDC and Jose from tech support was still convinced that the drive is fine....
 

mechBgon

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Huh :confused: Since the drive is invisible to both the motherboard and a new SATA card, despite the fact that it's powering up, it seems to me like it's a drive problem. You can RMA it to them using the RMA form on their web site here.

Unless it's the 10000rpm Raptor that only comes in SATA, however, you may want to RMA the drive back to where you bought it instead, tell them it's faulty, and ask if you can get the credit towards a standard PATA version of the same drive instead of another SATA one. Unless you really really want SATA, of course :D