Newer Samsung F3 drives may have issues with the SB850 southbridge

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems that some of the Samsung F3 drives with newer firmware have incompatibility problems with the SB850 southbridge.

Here are more details:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3545203

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=308

One of my mates had this issue with a build they were doing this weekend and to flash the disk to make it work.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Yup, I have my new(before I knew about the issue) F3 on a jmicron port on my mobo as if its connected to a sata 3 port the hard drive makes a really bad sounding click/turnover noise and won't stop doing it. Thought it had died when I first heard it as I had used it with an external drive gizmo to quickly back up some stuff before building new comp and removing old drives.

 

[Monster ninja]

It seems that some of the Samsung F3 drives with newer firmware have incompatibility problems with the SB850 southbridge.

Here are more details:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3545203

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=308

One of my mates had this issue with a build they were doing this weekend and to flash the disk to make it work.

are f3 brought in november december 2009 afficted?