cybersimo Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Yesterday I bought a Maxtor SATA 2 3.0 Gbps NCQ hard drive. The model is 6V200E0. It is recognized by BIOS, but when I start my PC with it (regardless if it is on any of the four sata connectors) everything freezes right after "backing up bios.... OK" with the HDD LED constantly ON! I tried everything, Partition Magic recognizes the drive, I made a copy of my old drive over the new one, but it refuses to boot. Then I noticed a small jumper on the HDD which stated SATA 1.5 Gbps Limit. I moved it and voila. Everything is working OK now. So what is the problem with my onboard SATA? Is it SATA 2 as my HDD or not? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rural Platypus Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 The NForce4 SATA controller on the Ultra-D is SATA II compatible, but it looks like you've run into the Maxtor/NVidia incompatibility issue that has been reported before. Search the threads for Maxtor and you'll see what I mean. Some people have had no trouble with Maxtors, others have had to get a firmware upgrade from Maxtor. I eventually gave up & bought a cheap SATA controller card & plugged the Maxtors into that and they worked fine. YMMV RP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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