Menelmarar
09-04-2007, 10:49 AM
I have 5 sata drives, system in sig.
sata0: Raptor 150gb, sata150
sata1: Maxtor 500gb, sata300
sata2: external Maxtor 160gb, sata150
sata3: external Maxtor 160gb, sata150
sata4: Lite-On DVD-RW
sata5: n/a
The two external drives are in Vantec external eSATA enclosures.
With the sata controller set to compatibility IDE mode, everything flashes through and is detected in the blink of an eye.
Switch to RAID or AHCI, and the two external drives get hung up really bad during auto detection at boot, taking 20-30seconds each. VERY annoying.
Opened up one of them to get specifics on the 160GB drives. They are fairly old, they may be the old school IDE drives with an integrated IDE-sata adapter vs. having a native SATA controller. Don't know. But that shouldn't effect detection... right?
From the label:
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9
160 GB SATA/150 HDD
I think the model number for this one is 6Y160M004531A.
The only jumper grid present from what I can tell from the drive and googling, it's just for some sort of diagnostics mode, that users shouldn't be messing with.
sata0: Raptor 150gb, sata150
sata1: Maxtor 500gb, sata300
sata2: external Maxtor 160gb, sata150
sata3: external Maxtor 160gb, sata150
sata4: Lite-On DVD-RW
sata5: n/a
The two external drives are in Vantec external eSATA enclosures.
With the sata controller set to compatibility IDE mode, everything flashes through and is detected in the blink of an eye.
Switch to RAID or AHCI, and the two external drives get hung up really bad during auto detection at boot, taking 20-30seconds each. VERY annoying.
Opened up one of them to get specifics on the 160GB drives. They are fairly old, they may be the old school IDE drives with an integrated IDE-sata adapter vs. having a native SATA controller. Don't know. But that shouldn't effect detection... right?
From the label:
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9
160 GB SATA/150 HDD
I think the model number for this one is 6Y160M004531A.
The only jumper grid present from what I can tell from the drive and googling, it's just for some sort of diagnostics mode, that users shouldn't be messing with.