Franc Zabkar
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 Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Gateway GM5066E help |
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:00:02 -0500, "redd" <redddd103@att.net> put
finger to keyboard and composed:
[quote]Looks like the bios automaticly reads what drives are connected and where. I
put the cable from the C: drive to the different SATA ports and bios showed
the drives on the port connected. Changing from Raid to IDE had no effect.
Looks like I have a bad new drive or cable. I saw a jumper on the mother
bd. close to the cable connectors but have no documentation so I left it
alone.
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AFAICT this is your motherboard manual (Intel D945GTP, NT94510J
Cortez):
http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d945gtp/sb/d1407001us.pdf
The 3-pin jumper is documented on page 65. It doesn>t appear to be
relevant to your problem.
I was wondering whether your motherboard had the earlier SATA
interface, so I checked out the following documents and found some
conflicting data, probably errors. For example, Intel>s datasheet
states that your motherboard supports SATA 2 (3G/s transfer rate), but
Gateway>s HDD spec refers to the SATA2 HD (3G/s) as having a Serial
ATA-150 (1.5 G/s) interface. FWIW, Seagate and Maxtor drives have a
1.5GB/3GB jumper for backward compatibility with slower SATA
interfaces, but I don>t believe your Hitachi drive is so equipped.
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d945gtp/sb/CS-029368.htm
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/D945GTP/TP_manual.htm
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1008881/1008881sp2.shtml
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1008881/1008881cl3.shtml
http://support.gateway.com/s/harddrv/Hitachi/105425/105425sp2.shtml
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1008881/1008881nv.shtml
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/products/Deskstar_T7K250
- Franc Zabkar
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