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a8n and sata300

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p0b0y

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Is the sata300 controller on the a8n backwards compatible, and if so, would it work with hdd w/sata adapters?
So far, the controller sees the drives, but not the info on them. I have the option to make a raid set out of them, but I want to save the data. I plugged them into the ide ports and they worked fine with data intact.
 
I'm not sure what you are asking....

"Is the sata300 controller on the a8n backwards compatible" They _should_ be. Your experience indicates something else...

"So far, the controller sees the drives, but not the info on them" Well crap, thats no good!!

"I plugged them into the ide ports and they worked fine with data intact" How??

Do you mean, they are not real SATA drives but PATA drives with an extra do-hicky on them to make them into SATA, and all you did was remove that do-hicky and plug them into the Pri/Sec IDE ports on the mobo?

In the perfect world: SATA2 (sata300, whatever they're calling it) is backwards compatible with SATA-1/SATA150 drives.

If they are the raptors, how are you plugging them into the IDE ports instead of the SATA ports? Or are they working just fine and yer pulling our legs? :D
 
They arent raptors, the raptors are working fine. The drives are my storage drives. Both are pata with sata adapters on them. The controller on the mobo "sees" the drives, but it wants me to convert them to jbod, which will destroy the data on them, or will it?
 
If these drives were previously in a RAID array, you shouldn't be able to see any data on them. "Converting" them to JBOD will cause catastrophic file system destruction (until you rebuild the files system).
 
p0b0y said:
They arent raptors, the raptors are working fine. The drives are my storage drives. Both are pata with sata adapters on them. The controller on the mobo "sees" the drives, but it wants me to convert them to jbod, which will destroy the data on them, or will it?
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PATA with SATA adapters. Thats your problem, (sorry for my Captain Obvious remark).

I dont have a lot of faith with those adapters, I'd ditch them and run pata on pata channels. It may be a pain in the arse, but unless you can flash firmware on them, or a BIOS update for the mobo fixes things, I dont know of any other options. :-(
 
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