Maxtor 6B300S0 - What Is It??

Revenant · 17 Jan 2007 at 09:06

Is my drive SCSI? IDE? SATA? - does that affect the physical connections?

I've got a new Asus P5W64 mobo and want to stick this drive in from my current (in use) machine. But I don't know what physical cabling I need to do so. Please advise as the mobo does not have a SCSI controller and I want to know if I need to purchase one.

The HD is a Maxtor 6B300S0, Diamond Max 10 family, Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s 16 Mb buffer.

Thanks
Simon

rpstewart · 17 Jan 2007 at 09:12

The drive is SATA (Serial ATA). It'll work with your new board, you can either transfer the SATA cable your using now or use one of the new ones which will come with the board.

Revenant · 17 Jan 2007 at 09:55

Thanks (again!). I thought it was... but Everest lists it as a SCSI Disk Drive and the Asus mobo doesn't come withe a controller.

Onwards and upwards.

rpstewart · 17 Jan 2007 at 10:56

Windows will default any non IDE devices to the SCSI category so if your SATA controller is not fully emulating an IDE controller (which many older or any RAID controller won't) then the drive will appear to Windows as a SCSI one. This is nothing to worry about, it's just the way Windows is.