Hi, If you have no joy at PC World etc - im happy for you to bring your drive here and I can downgrade it for you. Im in Whittlesey.
Andy On 30/12/2009 11:57, Richard Forth wrote: > Well, this just gets better and better, the more i read into this > problem the more stupid it sounds, for example, take my existing sata > drives, they sensibly have a pin-out on the back to which you can set > jumpers to say "limit this drive to 1.5Gbps transfer rate", which is > great because my motherboard only supports 1.5Gbps Sata (or SATA1). > The option therefore to uprate the speed to Sata II is simply to > remove the jumper. > On this new drive, the transfer rate needs to be done via software if > the drive fails to negotiate the speed automatically with the > controller (Mobo Sata says "No Device" as startup so i assume thats a > failure.). > The problem being is (and heres were it gets silly) to DOWNRATE the > transfer speed you need to connect it to a motherboard that supports > the Full 3.0Gbps (Sata II) standard - because obviously if the > controller can't detect the drive, the software provided by Samsung > isnt going to be able to work , haha. > Three options remain: > Go to PC World (I'm off at lunch to try this) speak to the "tech guys" > and see if they will do the honours for me and downrate it to 1.5Gbps > compulsory with the samsung software > Get a new motherboard that supports SATA II and socket 478 processors, > but means i need a new GFX card also becuase the new Mobo's all use > PCI-E instead of AGP > Get a PCI SATA II raid Card (so far all searches reveal these are > PCI-E so will also need number 2 above, in which case number 2 might > be the only option as my current Mobo does not support PCI-E). > Sorry for going off- topic with this it was supposed to be why it > worked in Windows and not in ubuntu. this is so annoying because the > drive "works" using teh PCI sata-raid card provided I unplug it at the > bois level and then hotplug the drive once windows is loaded. > The whole point of this was to have the new 1Tb drive mounted on > ubuntu as EXT3, but for some reason because the drive fails > negotiation at the bios level with the sata raid card, it all falls > over in a heap, there must be something in the windows driver that > allows it to negotiate successfully. > I'm off to PC-World in a few minutes to see if they will knock the > drive down to 1.5gbps for me, otherwise its a new mobo and graphics > card for me! joy! > Will report back this afternoon > > _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
