DELL E310 SATA 02

[Fidelity 07]

Hello, I am adding a second HDD to my DELL Dimension E310. The original factory boot drive (WD 80Gb SATA)is attached to the port labeled in the BIOS as SATA 0. When I attach the unformatted new HDD (WD 500Gb SATA 3Mbps) to the BIOS port titled SATA 2 (only other SATA port in the BIOS) and enable the port in the BIOS setup the boot returnes an error message "Error auto-sensing secondary hard drive disk drive 1".When I select F1 to reboot I receive a message that a boot drive cannot be found. If I remove the drive cable from SATA 2 port and attempt to reboot the same sequence occurs. If I go to Setup and turn SATA 2 port off the system boots normally.

 

[Fidelity 07]

Hello, I am adding a second HDD to my DELL Dimension E310. The original factory boot drive (WD 80Gb SATA)is attached to the port labeled in the BIOS as SATA 0. When I attach the unformatted new HDD (WD 500Gb SATA 3Mbps) to the BIOS port titled SATA 2 (only other SATA port in the BIOS) and enable the port in the BIOS setup the boot returnes an error message "Error auto-sensing secondary hard drive disk drive 1".When I select F1 to reboot I receive a message that a boot drive cannot be found. If I remove the drive cable from SATA 2 port and attempt to reboot the same sequence occurs. If I go to Setup and turn SATA 2 port off the system boots normally.

 

[fzabkar]

Is the BIOS able to detect the new drive if you attach it to SATA 0?

 

[Fidelity 07]

Yes. The BIOS wiii detect the new drive on either of the SATA ports with the old and new cable

 

[fzabkar]

I doubt it will make a difference, but try installing the drive's OPT1 jumper to limit its SATA interface speed to 1.5 Gbps.