On 31 Dec 2005 at 1:07, Gianmaria Fontana di Sacculmi wrote: > > WAG, could the box's internal cabling be 40-pin and the Plextor insists > > on 80 ? > > Nope, the Plextor 712A has a 40 pin connector.
No, not the connector itself, but the cable that connects the drive to the board, ie the ide cable. Many newer hard drives and new cd/dvd drives expect an 80pin ata cable and will not work without it, unless you use the manufacturers utility to tell the drive to run in PIO or DMA33 mode, modes above dma33 require the 80pin cable, which is what you will have inside your pc and is likely why the drive works fine there. Another possible issue is that the firmware on the enclosures needs updating, saw this same kind of thing happen with some external enclosures and some WD and Seagate drives. The firmware on the enclosure was defaulting to pio mode rather than dma100 so it didn't work until we got the enclosure utility and told it to run in dma100 mode. This was for a firewire enclosure, however same issue applies with usb2 enclosures. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
