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| Author: | electrohacker [ Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:12 pm ] |
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I finally got a socket 745 MSI micro ATX board with a processor and ram I want to get a WD 1TB Green SATA2 drive to boot from the onboard SATA, but the people from MSI say they dont know if the SATA1 controller on the board will boot from the drive and that it was never designed to be compatible any ideas? I've tried booting a linux CD and it almost kinda sorta wants to see the drive. I also have a PCI SATA2 card and a USB SATA2 drive reader so I thought I should be able to get SOMETHING to work. |
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| Author: | langelgjm [ Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:44 pm ] |
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So the board has an onboard SATA1 controller, and they are telling you it might not allow you to boot a SATA2 drive from it? That sounds bogus to me... I thought SATA2 vs SATA1 was mainly about transfer speed. I'd think if it boots a SATA1 drive it should boot a SATA2 drive as well. I have a SATA2 drive hooked up to a SATA1 PCI controller and it works fine (obviously limited to 1.5 Gbps, and whatever the PCI bus transfer speed is), however, I don't boot from it. |
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| Author: | electrohacker [ Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:34 pm ] |
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THAT'S WHAT IM SAYING. but so far the board doesnt want to recognize the SATA2 drive, an IDE drive with a SATA converter, it reads fine and the SATA2 drive on a USB drive reader, reads fine |
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| Author: | yaplej [ Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:56 pm ] |
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Most SATA2 drives have a jumper will force it to SATA1 mode. I have had to use it on several WD drives before where the controler had problems with the driver in SATA2 mode. |
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| Author: | christ [ Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:16 pm ] |
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yaplej wrote: Most SATA2 drives have a jumper will force it to SATA1 mode.
That's my experience as well and I've seen them on WD drives. My Fujitsu drives though would require a firmware config which has to be done from a windows machine. As far as any SATA1 driver being able to work with a SATA2 driver, it is more than speed. There is protocol compatibility as well. While these protocols are designed to be able to be backward compatible it doesn't always work out. electrohacker, have you also tried the BIOS settings? On R5.5 I found satisfaction using AHCI mode as opposed to SATA. |
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| Author: | electrohacker [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:56 am ] |
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so far i cant get into the raid bios i'll check on the jumper |
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| Author: | electrohacker [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:09 am ] |
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I'm guessing its jumpers 5 and 6 which says "enables 1.5GB PHY" WD if you're reading along, MAKES THIS MORE CLEAR RETARDS |
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| Author: | christ [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:01 am ] |
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electrohacker wrote: I'm guessing its jumpers 5 and 6 which says "enables 1.5GB PHY"
Sounds correct to me. |
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| Author: | electrohacker [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:47 pm ] |
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IT WORKED! thank you MSI for not knowing how your own hardware can interact with others... Damn glad I got this used, so my money didnt go to these artards. THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO HELPED |
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