another SATA question

shimy182 · 6 Jun 2006 at 23:45

Hiya.

i have a DFI lanparty UT 250Gb mobo.
i asked my dad if he could buy me a set of HDDs with sata, and really kind of him he did.

now... he got me the faster sata compat HDDs (3gb/s) and my mobo only takes to 1.5gb/s. will it still fit?

the HDD is the HITACHI Deskstar82.3GB 7200rpm

thankyou in advance

smids · 6 Jun 2006 at 23:47

Yes - might need to jumper it though to force 150MB/s. See my sticky - top of HDU forum for more info.

Ignore that - you won't need to do anything, Hitachi SATA-II drives are set to SATA1 by default from the factory - you have to enable SATA-II on them (I should know, I own 4, but forgot - bit tired at the moment

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shimy182 · 6 Jun 2006 at 23:48

oh yea... sorry forgot to read sticky.

smids · 6 Jun 2006 at 23:49

See above ^^^ I edited it.

shimy182 · 6 Jun 2006 at 23:52

okey thankooo.
If im not mistaken thats not on sticky?

anywhooo you should get some sleep for tonight. thanks for help

shimy182 · 7 Jun 2006 at 01:13

OK .... i just plugged in the 2 HDDs. powered them both with the flatty connection next to sata port.

enabled sata drives on board but it doesnt want to work...
i set it up on board as striped, and it says healthy. on windows i can see it as 2 different drives on hardware manager but i cant partition it !!!

it doesnt come up on my computer!

help me please

smids · 7 Jun 2006 at 01:16

Have you installed the necessary RAID drivers? Does it appear in Disk Management (Right click 'My Computer' > Manage > Disk Management > Can you see an unallocated/uninitialised disk?). What RAID controller is this, nF3?

EDITED because I am an idiot

(didn't read it all before).

EDIT2: Make sure you have NOT connected both SATA power (the flat one) AND the normal 4 pin molex.

shimy182 · 7 Jun 2006 at 01:32

ehhm. cant find that manage or disk management thing you type of.... i have windows XP home

EDIT. found the whole volume thing doing it now. hopefully after this it will show up. thanks