Re: Samsung 1Tb Drives - Help - Raid settings?!?!

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm this is looking expensive!!! The problem is that my sata
interface card doesn't support the faster speed, 3gbit/sec.
Looked into jumper settings...and also a utility you can download from
samsung that should force the hd to stay at 1.5 but alas no joy.
Looking on forums there's been a fair few issues with these with lots
of people on older kit just having no luck!!

Now I know as a true ukha'er I should treat this as perfect
justification to buy more upgrades but it wasn't really in the plan!

So does anyone have that they wish to sell...or know of a 'CHEAP' Sata
2 PCI interface card?  Everything I'm finding is around the =A340 mark
at the lowest which wasn't really part of the plan!!

I'm on an old ATX motherboard with AMD Socket 462 processor (yes yes
old i know but does the job) so upgrading means new mobo, processor,
prob ram the lot!!

Cheers

Noel


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "noel_pilot" <HA@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for that, poss its because I hadn't bothered to install the
> drivers for the SATA card since I last rebuilt. Just odd that it
> doesn't do it for any of my other drives just the Samsung!!
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> Currently fighting with Cyclic redundancy errors on the failing drive
> as I just try and transfer the movies off it!! Such a pain having to
> do them all individually!
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> Thanks
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "noughtomate" <balraj_jassal@>
wrote:
> >
> > Motherboard settings ? Check your manual.=20
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> > Try using an alternative spare SATA connection on your
motherboard.=20
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> > (Unless you have a raid card installed)
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> > --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "noel_pilot" <HA@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,=20
> > > I bought one of these 1Tb samsung drives, plugged in fine,
working=20
> > ok
> > > but everytime i reboot after the bios the pc asks if I want
to enter
> > > Raid settings shows the ID of the Samsung drive and stops
there,
> > > pressing ctrl and S or F4 as it says to enter raid setup
doesn't do
> > > anything.
> > > If I unplug the drive and reset then it boots into windows
fine and=20
> > i
> > > can plug the drive back in!
> > >=20
> > > Any thoughts how I sort this?! Sorry for being a bit dense!
> > >=20
> > > thanks
> > >=20
> > > Noel
> > >
> >
>



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