SATA; No Drive Detected ASUS A8v Deluxe

Tried installing a Western Digital SATA WD1600 on an ASUS A8V Deluxe
motherboard that already has a SATA drive. When I attach the WD1600 no
drive is detected including the existing SATA C drive. Attaching the
new drive alone still no drive detected.
Attached new drive to a HP D530 PC with a SATA C drive and the new
drive works just fine.

Reloaded A8V SATA drivers.
Changed new drive to other SATA connector on A8V motherboard.
Am using Via connectors and controller.
Promise Controller Disabled
SATA BOOTROM Enabled

Any ideas???

Joe wrote:
> Tried installing a Western Digital SATA WD1600 on an ASUS A8V Deluxe
> motherboard that already has a SATA drive. When I attach the WD1600 no
> drive is detected including the existing SATA C drive. Attaching the
> new drive alone still no drive detected.
> Attached new drive to a HP D530 PC with a SATA C drive and the new
> drive works just fine.
>
> Reloaded A8V SATA drivers.
> Changed new drive to other SATA connector on A8V motherboard.
> Am using Via and controller.
> Promise Controller Disabled
> SATA BOOTROM Enabled
>
> Any ideas???
>

Examine the back of the drive, for a 1x4 jumper block area. Some
drives will support "force 150" as a jumper installation. (Check
the WD web site, for their jumper information. Companies are
surprisingly lazy about this stuff now.) With a VIA chipset,
you want to force any SATA 300 drives to run at SATA 150, rather
than relying on automatic negotiation.

Reference: PDF page 11

http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/m...n_guide_en.pdf

Paul

Paul,

That was it....thanks much!

Joe

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:50:16 -0400, Paul <> wrote:




>Joe wrote:
>> Tried installing a Western Digital SATA WD1600 on an ASUS A8V Deluxe
>> motherboard that already has a SATA drive. When I attach the WD1600 no
>> drive is detected including the existing SATA C drive. Attaching the
>> new drive alone still no drive detected.
>> Attached new drive to a HP D530 PC with a SATA C drive and the new
>> drive works just fine.
>>
>> Reloaded A8V SATA drivers.
>> Changed new drive to other SATA connector on A8V motherboard.
>> Am using Via and controller.
>> Promise Controller Disabled
>> SATA BOOTROM Enabled
>>
>> Any ideas???
>>
>
>Examine the back of the drive, for a 1x4 jumper block area. Some
>drives will support "force 150" as a jumper installation. (Check
>the WD web site, for their jumper information. Companies are
>surprisingly lazy about this stuff now.) With a VIA chipset,
>you want to force any SATA 300 drives to run at SATA 150, rather
>than relying on automatic negotiation.
>
>Reference: PDF page 11
>
>http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/m...n_guide_en.pdf
>
> Paul