trex_dk said:I think it's working now, I have just flashed the bios to a new beta. I found it on the german ftp that PRELUDiCON linked to!
So thx everyone! It helped me a lot!
LA Fred said:(The Maxtor people claimed that this was the first they had heard of the problem!)
Customer 12/18/2004 09:06 PM
Hi, I just purchased the MAXTOR 6B300S0 HD and I can't get my BIOS to recognize it
Motherboard is ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [revision 1010], and I'm currently running a MAXTOR SATA 160GB HD [not sure of model#] with no problems, although, this drive is being detected as a 'THIRD PRIMARY'.
I tried many things, initially wanted to hook up the new drive as an additional drive, didnt' work, NO drives were detected ... tried it on its' own, didn't work, system froze afer RAM count.
I disconnected the SATA data cable, removed the drive from the case and held it in my hand as I powered up the machine, I felt the drive working, so it's not a power issue.
How can I get this drive to be recognized??
Please help.
Regards,
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Response (TSDominik27) 12/19/2004 07:22 AM
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Thank you for sending your MAXTOR E-mail inquiry.
Hello:
You have to load the SATA controller driver before a SATA drive will be detected. Once this SATA controller is loaded there should be no issue with the drive being detected.
Thank you,
Maxtor Technical Assistance
Dominik TS27
1-800-2-MAXTOR (1-800-262-9867) (voice)
353 1 204 1111 (International)
http://www.maxtor.com (web)
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LA Fred said:Well, I did hear from ASUS within 48 hours. Here are their words of wisdom:
For your problem ,please try the following doings :
#1 Clear the cmos
#2 Reflash your bios to the latest version
#3 Change another memory to have a test
#4 Change your VGA card
#5 Change another power supply
#6 Reinstall your OS
#7 Scan for virus at last.
If All of the above have done and still the problem ,then please contact our local service for the motherboard testing.
I guess they also want me to change to another brand of MB.
LA Fred said:My concern is that my other 3 drives are Western Digital. I'm concerned that this patch might try to fix them. They are not causing any problems. Also, my main two drives are set up RAID Stripe 0. I don't want to end up with NOTHING working. My MB is a P4C800-E Deluxe. It has two set of SATA connectors. I know the first two are RAID. However, I never did know if the second set of SATA connectors were raid or not.
LA Fred said:I can disconnect the 250GB Western Digital with no problem. However, my OS is running on the two RAID HD's as a Stripe 0.
By the way, in Googling Maxtor 6B300S0, I happened upon some sites that restore/rebuild dead drives. They don't have much good to say about Maxtor, in general. They apparently have had a lot of problems.
I'll wait another day or two to see if anyone else comments before I become the test pilot.
LA Fred said:The rep just assured me that the drive is now as it should be.
It didn't do anything to the data already on the drive.
Now, I'll see if I can attach the patch.
No, I can't. Tell me how.
LA Fred said:I followed the steps, but got this error message:
The page cannot be displayed
I followed the instructions listed on the page, but cannot get anything better than that.
I'll try private mail to see if that will "take."