So have been reading all over the forum about the rare issues that SATA 3.0 Drives have with 1.5 Controllers and i want to explain my issue and see if anyone might be able to help me out.
I pulled the hard drive from a 320 Gb Western Digital My Book. the drive is a WD 3200JD or JS I forgot which now, sorry. The My Book with giving me issues with slow access to files so i figured pulling it and just running the drive as an internal SATA would be a good idea to speed things up. anyways, after pulling it and installing it in my system i have had no luck getting the BIOS to recognize the drive.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I848775-G that has two 120 GB PATA drives already connected to it. and a DVD Rom and DVD-RW Drives connected on the other IDE channel. I have found out that my MoBo uses Sata 150 rather then Sata 3.0 Gbit/s.
So the only thing I have read about trying was setting the jumper on the 5/6 pins on the drive to force it into SATA 150 mode. This did not work.
Other things i have checked included making sure that the drive was getting power. which it is, and listening to the drive to see if i hear it clicking to maybe signify a bad drive. Also I have tried altering every IDE and SATA setting within the Bios and none of that has worked either.
I would like to know if i should try removing one of the devices on an IDE channel since they are all currently being used. Also if you think i should try buying a SATA 3.0 Gbit/s PCI controller card and hope that it interfaces properly with the Drive.
Any Suggestions would be great. I have so much media on that drive i dont really want to loose it just because i can't get my SATA to work.
I pulled the hard drive from a 320 Gb Western Digital My Book. the drive is a WD 3200JD or JS I forgot which now, sorry. The My Book with giving me issues with slow access to files so i figured pulling it and just running the drive as an internal SATA would be a good idea to speed things up. anyways, after pulling it and installing it in my system i have had no luck getting the BIOS to recognize the drive.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I848775-G that has two 120 GB PATA drives already connected to it. and a DVD Rom and DVD-RW Drives connected on the other IDE channel. I have found out that my MoBo uses Sata 150 rather then Sata 3.0 Gbit/s.
So the only thing I have read about trying was setting the jumper on the 5/6 pins on the drive to force it into SATA 150 mode. This did not work.
Other things i have checked included making sure that the drive was getting power. which it is, and listening to the drive to see if i hear it clicking to maybe signify a bad drive. Also I have tried altering every IDE and SATA setting within the Bios and none of that has worked either.
I would like to know if i should try removing one of the devices on an IDE channel since they are all currently being used. Also if you think i should try buying a SATA 3.0 Gbit/s PCI controller card and hope that it interfaces properly with the Drive.
Any Suggestions would be great. I have so much media on that drive i dont really want to loose it just because i can't get my SATA to work.