SATA 750 G drive

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Terry

When I plug in my new drive into the existing controller it hangs
The screen shows

WDC WD 5000 AAKS 00TMA 5 000 000
WDC WD 7500 AAKS 00RBA

Or something close. I can't read my own writing sometimes.

If I unplug the new 750 it will boot.
It hangs trying to read it.

Did I buy the wrong kind of drive for my controller?
 
When I plug in my new drive into the existing controller it hangs
The screen shows

WDC WD 5000 AAKS 00TMA 5 000 000
WDC WD 7500 AAKS 00RBA

Or something close. I can't read my own writing sometimes.

If I unplug the new 750 it will boot.
It hangs trying to read it.

Did I buy the wrong kind of drive for my controller?
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What's WD support or their site say about setting one up, minimum
requirements, etc...

I haven't heard anything about large drives and native MB support/
issues. Then again biggest I know is someone that told me he got a
pair of WD 1.5T drives from CompUSA going out of business - they're
enclosed and USB interfaced tho.
 
Not likely.

I had one DOA from Newegg. It would not partition and format. New one works
fine.
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The drive works fine in my main machine. I just partitioned it and
formated it in one machine.

When I put it back in my old machine it hangs at boot.

I think it may be my mobo. It is a KT7A IDE RAID with a SATA PCI card
installed with one working SATA drive.

A WD500 works fine with it.
 
When I plug in my new drive into the existing controller it hangs
The screen shows

WDC WD 5000 AAKS 00TMA 5 000 000
WDC WD 7500 AAKS 00RBA

Or something close. I can't read my own writing sometimes.

If I unplug the new 750 it will boot.
It hangs trying to read it.

Did I buy the wrong kind of drive for my controller?
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The problem turned out that my old controller did not support the fast
speed. I had to add a jumper to the drive. (good thing I save those)

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1337&p_created=1112379341

The answer came from emailing WD and reading their support FAQs

Thanks everyone
 
Mark said:
What is the SATA PCI card and what is the BIOS version on the
motherboard and the firmware version on the card?

Also, I think your motherboard is an Abit board, but the Abit US
site doesn't get any hits for KT7A. Please confirm that the
manufacturer of the motherboard is http://www.abit.com.tw
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You have to use the motherboard pulldown menu, and select Socket A.
The manual for the KT7A is here.

ftp://ftp.abitshop.com/pub//manual/english/kr7a.zip

Paul
 
AFAICS, your other WD drive should be using the same jumper:http://www.wdc.com/en/products/productspecs.asp?driveid=301

Interface SATA 3 Gb/s

- Franc Zabkar
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Well it is broke again. :)
I have tried every combination I know of.
Making one drive 0 then the other 1
Putting jumpers on each/both drives


The 500 always works and the 750 now makes it hang.

If I make the 500 0 the boot will report it and is size and report the
750 but hangs when it reports its size.

If I make the 750 drive 0 the boot will report the drive but hangs in
reporting the size. It doesn't report the 500.
 
You have to use the motherboard pulldown menu, and select Socket A.
The manual for the KT7A is here.

ftp://ftp.abitshop.com/pub//manual/english/kr7a.zip

Paul
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Thanks
I was unable to find this at the site because I didn't know socket
type and chipset.

Having the manuals grouped like this make sense to eggheads, but it
does little for us little guys.
 
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