Maxtor SATA drive not detected by BIOS

nobbyy87 · 27 Jan 2007 at 12:24

Hi

I have a Maxtor Dioamondmax 10 250gb SATA drive that my Abit AV8 will not detect - I have x2 other maxtor SATA dirves which the mobo detects fine.

I have tried the drive in a chanitech mobo and it detects it fine!

I have upgraded the mobo bios to latest version and changed cables with no success.

I am now considering buying a PCI SATA card to solve thjis - any toher thoughts?

rpstewart · 27 Jan 2007 at 12:46

The AV8 only supports SATA1 so you'll probably have to set the limit jumper on the new Maxtor to force it to run in SATA1 mode.

nobbyy87 · 27 Jan 2007 at 14:26

AHA!

Thanks for that - I will try it when I get home!

nobbyy87 · 27 Jan 2007 at 16:54

Tried swapping jumper and still no success - any other thoughts?

rpstewart · 27 Jan 2007 at 17:17

The AV8 Manual is pretty poor to be honest, there's absolutely nothing about configuring the RAID controller :confused:

Does the drive spin up OK when it's attached to your PC?

How do you access the RAID BIOS on your board?

nobbyy87 · 27 Jan 2007 at 17:25

Hi

The drive does spin up - but you can only access the raid bios if the board detects a drive! Bit of a chicken and egg situation.

However I have used another smaller sized maxtor on the SATA connction and it spotted this fine - however even with both connected it did not recognise the bigger one.