On 30 Dec 2005 at 21:25, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> On 31 Dec 2005 at 1:07, Gianmaria Fontana di Sacculmi wrote:
> > 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.
Perhaps I'm missing something; if I count the pins on the
mobo's IDE connector it's 40. and the Asus' manual also
mentins: IDE connectors 40-1 pin; is there some
concealed information I'm missing?
> 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.
The enclosure comes with a "smart cable" called "USB
2.0 to IDE". I'm not sure how to check firmware since it
seems to be only usb 2.0 driver. I could check this on the
second box with the working Samsung How can I check
this?
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