New 80Gb SATA Western Digital disc, not working though :(

by **ReFredzRate** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:40 pm

Hey guys (and girls of course), I just got me a new SATA disc, and it seems not to be working. I have the bad feeling that the disc is dead. I've never had any trouble with harddisks before, but this one seems to be DOA.

When I plug it into the SATA and Molex, and boot the computer, the disk just starts to:
*tick*...............................*tick*.............................*tick*..........................*tick*

What do you think?

by **Rasmus Lindström** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:02 pm

I think it's time to use the warranty :S

by **ReFredzRate** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:19 am

Yeah well, right now I have the disk for only 2 days, so the warranty is still valid. Only problem is, I have to take it 15km away from home to stand in line in the shop for about 2 hours to FINALLY get it replaced. I think I'll call them today.

by **Phate** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:41 pm

maybe try calling WD, not the store you got it from

by **ReFredzRate** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:48 pm

Nah, I'm not even going to try to get it to work. I don't have the time for that. The store's open at 11 tomorrow morning. I'll be hopping by that store on my f***ing day off >_<'

by **ReFredzRate** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:31 am

So I had my disk RMA'd and got a new one now. It doesn't tick, that's a good thing. However, my motherboard/sata controller still doesn't pick up the harddisk.
I'll have to do some serious testing to find out what might be wrong with the damn SATA controller or maybe the harddisk or whatever.
Anyhow, I can't say that I'm really happy with SATA.

by **Rasmus Lindström** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:57 am

Is this your first SATA disk that you're using or have you used and installed them before?

by **ReFredzRate** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:09 pm

Was my first SATA disk ever. Finally I've found out what the problem is. My BIOS still only supports SATA generation I, my disk is SATA generation II. This means I have to jumper pin 5+6 on the back of the disk, to make it generation I compatible. Well... now maybe installing Windows on it would be nice...

by **Phate** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:12 pm

hmmm... what is the difference between the 2 generations?

by **ReFredzRate** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:28 am

Speed.... As far as I know gen I goes up to 150Mb/s, gen II goes up to 200Mb/s.

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