Re: SATA DVD drive on PCI/SATA controller?

2010-05-31 Thread ah...clem
On May 30, 7:58 pm, gifutiger gifuti...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried just connecting the Pioneer drive to the same cable and port that the Seagate is connected? Give it a try and see what happens. thanks. but i did try the obvious. the cables are both good. had 2 HDs connected, no

Re: SATA DVD drive on PCI/SATA controller?

2010-05-31 Thread Bill Connelly
On May 31, 2010, at 2:54 AM, ah...clem wrote: On May 30, 7:58 pm, gifutiger gifuti...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried just connecting the Pioneer drive to the same cable and port that the Seagate is connected? Give it a try and see what happens. thanks. but i did try the obvious. the

Re: SATA DVD drive on PCI/SATA controller?

2010-05-31 Thread Bill Connelly
The other thing I thought of ... does your SATA cable come loose when you shut the tower's door? Those cables don't seem to fasten very snugly ... some are right angled at one end, may look good when the door is open, but angled wrong when shut ... maybe that is part of the issue ...

SATA DVD drive on PCI/SATA controller?

2010-05-30 Thread ah...clem
hey all! i've been using an ACard 6290M PCI/SATA controller in a QS for a while now, and it works beautifully with a 1TB Seagate (boot disk) connected. but i just tried to connect a Pioneer DVD/CD drive w/ SATA interface to the second SATA port on the ACard, and it is not recognized, and it

Re: SATA DVD drive on PCI/SATA controller?

2010-05-30 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Altho I wasn't trying to connect a SATA drive and a CD/DVD when I connected two drives the first time I had similar problems. Turned out the the second SATA cable was bed. Have you tried just connecting the Pioneer drive to the same cable and port that the Seagate is connected? Give it

RE: SATA DVD drive on PCI/SATA controller?

2010-05-30 Thread Stewie de Young
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 16:28:52 -0700 Subject: SATA DVD drive on PCI/SATA controller? From: boneheads...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com hey all! i've been using an ACard 6290M PCI/SATA controller in a QS for a while now, and it works beautifully with a 1TB Seagate (boot disk

Re: SATA DVD drive on PCI/SATA controller?

2010-05-30 Thread Chance Reecher
Where are you getting that 12MB/s figure? I'm pretty sure USB 2.0 is good for up to 60MB/s, and I personally have seen around 40MB/s. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:28 PM, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote: because the USB2 will limit xfers to a maximum of around 12MB/s (approx 8x DVD speed).