Drive fitness test problems x 3

[fsh42na]

I'm putting the finishing touches on a new pc for my sis in law:

gigabyte X58A 3R
I7 920 cpu
6x2gb DDR3 PC 1600
GTX 460 1gb video card
Intel 80gb SSD for OS
Samsung 1tb HD (for downloads; Itunes)
Hitachi 2tb HD (for storage)
XFX 850w PS
Coolermaster 690 II case
Windows 7 Home premium

Everything is running well till I decided to add the Hitachi 2tb drive to the system. It's seen in the bios, Win 7 accepts it too. I then run the latest Hitachi drive fitness test and it can't find the drive! I change the cables, reset the cables, nothing. Well, bad drive I'm thinking, shit happens. I have a total of 5 so I try 3 more identical drives (manuf date from July 10- Sept 10) and they aren't seen either!! I'm down to my last drive, but I'm thinking what are the odds that 4 freaking drives are bad?

What do you guys think is going on here? I'll try plugging in the drives in the Marvel SATA slots and see what happens there.


EDIT: Using the Marvel controller slots didn't help either. I'm gonna try what TLB said below later tonight.


thanks for your feedback

 

[TheLastBoyscout]

I had to change the SATA controller mode in the BIOS from "AHCI" (or "RAID") to "IDE" (or "Legacy") for DFT to detect my 2TB 5K3000 drives. Have you tried that?

-TLB

 

[fsh42na]

I had to change the SATA controller mode in the BIOS from "AHCI" (or "RAID") to "IDE" (or "Legacy") for DFT to detect my 2TB 5K3000 drives. Have you tried that?

-TLB

No, but I'm definitely gonna give it a try next. I know we have to set it to AHCI to install Win 7. Did you set it back to AHCI after running the test?

Thanks a bunch!

 

[TheLastBoyscout]

Yes, I had to 'toggle' this setting as I wanted to install the OS first to get an overall idea of the system's state (anything obvious that has a problem) and then went back to perform more thorough tests. After DFT completed I changed the BIOS back to AHCI to avoid the BSOD when Windows boots.
Each drive took 5.5 hours of testing time in the advanced (full) test mode...

-TLB

 

[fsh42na]

Yes, I had to 'toggle' this setting as I wanted to install the OS first to get an overall idea of the system's state (anything obvious that has a problem) and then went back to perform more thorough tests. After DFT completed I changed the BIOS back to AHCI to avoid the BSOD when Windows boots.
Each drive took 5.5 hours of testing time in the advanced (full) test mode...

-TLB

Thanks a bunch! Gonna do that later tonight. You have any idea if Hitachi is the only manufacturer with this issue when running their diagnostic/testing software under AHCI? Tempted to pick up either a Samsung or WD this weekend.