Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> Boot partition is not involved here. Its on a a different (IDE) disk. >> >> Its not on a partition actually but in the MBR of Master drive on >> first IDE controller. The newly added disk is sata and is on a PCI >> sata controller (Adeptec 1205sa). > > After re-reading your first post, my guess would be: your new drives > are SATA II but your Adapter controller does not support that, > according to http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/sata/sata_host/ASH-1205SA/ > > Most drives have a jumper to put them into 1.5gbps mode (rather than > 3gbps mode). See if your new drives have one of those jumpers.
There are pins (no actual jumper was supplied) but the only thing mentioned on the drive about using pins is this: Jumpered pins 3 and 4 enables PUIS (Power Up In Standby) I think I found what you are referring to but there is no mention of changing 3gb to 1.5gb... at least not in those terms. Or maybe this is something else. They call it: Enable or disable the spread spectrum clocking feature. Default setting is disable Here: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=487&language=en Which has this further link on the Specification tab/Left hand column Quick Installation Guide http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2079-001042.pdf
