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    Official Buyer's Guide Feedback and Updates

    Yes, HItachi bought out IBM, and IBM is laughing all the way to the bank. There is currently a lawsuite on IBM for making and marketing defective drives knowingly. I think I got the drive right around when Hitachi bought IBM, so it was probably manufactured under IBM ownership. With my third...
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    WD800JD SATA drive not recognized on A7N8X with Silicon Image SATA Controller

    The default setting is that there are no jumpers at all. All the pins are "Naked". I have left them like that (factory setting).
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    WD800JD SATA drive not recognized on A7N8X with Silicon Image SATA Controller

    My system is overclocked a little. I will set it to normal settings and try it. The drive had no jumpers set when it arrived from newegg.com and I did not change that. Also, do I need to set the Hard Drive type in my BIOS to SCSI or HDD-0? Thanks again Update: I set bios settings...
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    Problems with WD caviar SE SATA and A7N8X mobo

    my WD SATA has jumpers for transfer rate and spread sprectrum feature. I have left them at factory default. Called WD support and they told me to set my hard drive type in BIOS as SCSI. It did not help. Im about to send this POC back to newegg and go back to good old IDE :(((
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    Problems with WD caviar SE SATA and A7N8X mobo

    I am having the exact same problem. A7N8X delux mobo, WD 80 gig Caviar SATA drive. The bios recognized drive, I press F6 and install the silicon image SATA drivers (latest ones), my mobo has the latest BIOS, but in the part where I need to select the destination for windows install, it...
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    Official Buyer's Guide Feedback and Updates

    I have had 3 IBM/Hitachi drives in the last 2 years. All have failed after going though the "Click of Death Syndrom" for a month or so. Just bought my WD drive. Hopefully better luck with this one :)
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    WD800JD SATA drive not recognized on A7N8X with Silicon Image SATA Controller

    Hi, I have an Asus A7n8x motherboard. I am trying to replace my IBM SATA drive (which is in the process of failing), with a WD800JD 80 gig SATA (150) drive. I have the most recent BIOS, most recent STAT drivers (silicon image Sil 3112 SATA Raid controller). During XP installation I press...
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