On 18 June 2012, at 15:39, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >> ... >> It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in >> a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would >> operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any >> analogous steps for the 4TB drives? > > I don't remember seeing any jumpers at all. I'll take another look when I > get back there.
With some drives this is done in software / firmware. I think you mentioned these drives are Hitachi - previous models of their drives were set using their "Hard-drive Feature Tool" bootable CD (e.g. ftool_215.iso). This now appears to be obsolete, but they may offer a newer alternative. From experience, if the motherboard / SATA controller is old enough you will *definitely* have to set the drives to 1.5Gb/s. Stroller.
