Maxtor SATA 120s

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I have a machine with two Seagate SATA drives on a RAID0. I bought two
Maxtor SATAs from NewEgg. They arrived early and I was dissappointed that I
hadn't done my research on the model # better. They seem to be converted
IDE (still have the jumper block and IDE power connector in addition to the
SATA stuff).

I'm trying to put them in my GA-7NNXP with the Seagates. They are not being
detected. Is it because they are converted IDEs and still have the jumper
blocks? Regular SATA drives don't use jumpers it seems. Any way to work
around this? Or am I hosed? If so, I can use them in another machine that
has no SATA (SATA cards don't cost too much). I sure would love to add them
to the Seagate array as this is the machine I edit video on.

Any help is appreciated.

Art
 
Art Wakefield said:
I have a machine with two Seagate SATA drives on a RAID0. I bought two
Maxtor SATAs from NewEgg. They arrived early and I was dissappointed that I
hadn't done my research on the model # better. They seem to be converted
IDE (still have the jumper block and IDE power connector in addition to the
SATA stuff).

I'm trying to put them in my GA-7NNXP with the Seagates. They are not being
detected. Is it because they are converted IDEs and still have the jumper blocks?
Nope.

Regular SATA drives don't use jumpers it seems.
Correct.

Any way to work around this?
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Work out why they cant be seen. It wont
be because they are a hybrid drive.
Or am I hosed?
Nope.

If so, I can use them in another machine that has no SATA
(SATA cards don't cost too much). I sure would love to add
them to the Seagate array as this is the machine I edit video on.
Click to expand...

Its likely a more basic problem of setting up the drives on that
rather weird motherboard implementation of hard drive controllers.
 
Its likely a more basic problem of setting up the drives on that
rather weird motherboard implementation of hard drive controllers.
Click to expand...
Thanks Rod. That is reassuring. I'll dink with it more tonight and let you
know what happens.


Art
 
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