Maxline and Nforce4

Nemesis · 15 Jul 2006 at 02:30

OcUK I'm sure you know these drives don't work with the nforce4 chip sets, yet you don't mention it in the write up, so what now I send it back and lose 15% because the drive is not faulty?

Added a bit at the bottom for you.

Maxtor MaxLine III NCQ 250GB 7V250F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-094-MD)

- SATA-II Interface
- Native command queuing
- Hot plug
- Staggered spin-up
- Asynchronous recovery
- 1 million hours MTTF at low duty cycle
- S.M.A.R.T. features
- Advance manufacturer replacement in two business days (www.maxtor.com)
- 24-hour on-line troubleshooting tools and email (www.maxtor.com)
- DON'T WORK WITH NFORCE 4 CHIPSET

Yewen · 15 Jul 2006 at 02:44

Never heard of this incompatability before, surely it would be extremely well documented if there really was one? :confused:

semi-pro waster · 15 Jul 2006 at 03:12

Yewen said:
Never heard of this incompatability before, surely it would be extremely well documented if there really was one?

I'm not 100% as it isn't a matter that concerns me greatly given I have older Maxtor drives and a VIA chipset but I think that it is solved with a firmware update for the drives. Ok seems my memory isn't so bad after all I've just checked in the Hard Drives forum and found this thread which details the problem and possible solution.

Also this might be better in the Hard Drives forum or maybe even the Motherboards forum.

Nemesis · 15 Jul 2006 at 03:19

Yewen said:
Never heard of this incompatability before, surely it would be extremely well documented if there really was one?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=maxtor+and+nforce4&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Been looking tonight, extremely well documented i would say.

Nemesis · 15 Jul 2006 at 03:21

semi-pro waster said:
I'm not 100% as it isn't a matter that concerns me greatly given I have older Maxtor drives and a VIA chipset but I think that it is solved with a firmware update for the drives. Ok seems my memory isn't so bad after all I've just checked in the Hard Drives forum and found this thread which details the problem and possible solution.

Also this might be better in the Hard Drives forum or maybe even the Motherboards forum.

Ive wasted hours trying to get this hdd to work, this is almost as bad or on par with the Asus chipset fan fault, OcUK knew there was a chipset fan problem yet kept selling the boards.

semi-pro waster · 15 Jul 2006 at 03:29

Nemesis said:
Ive wasted hours trying to get this hdd to work, this is almost as bad or on par with the Asus chipset fan fault, OcUK knew there was a chipset fan problem yet kept selling the boards.

Have you tried updating the firmware? As that seems to solve the problem or if your motherboard has a different SATA controller run the drive off that and it will work.

OcUK could put a warning on their product page but since it is a problem that only appears to affect certain revisions and given the amount of different possible hardware configurations I'm not sure they could or should be expected to list all potential conflicts.

Nemesis · 15 Jul 2006 at 03:33

semi-pro waster said:
Have you tried updating the firmware? As that seems to solve the problem or if your motherboard has a different SATA controller run the drive off that and it will work.

OcUK could put a warning on their product page but since it is a problem that only appears to affect certain revisions and given the amount of different possible hardware configurations I'm not sure they could or should be expected to list all potential conflicts.

Have to email maxtor for the fix.

Jokester · 15 Jul 2006 at 09:26

Nemesis said:
Have to email maxtor for the fix.

Yeah, tell them the issue and they should get straight back to you with the fix.

Jokester