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[GA-EP35C-DS3R] Plextools can't use a Plextor writer connected tothe Gigabytre SATA ports
Hello eveyone,
I connected a Plextor PX-801SA drive to one of the 2 Gigabyte SATA ports (the urple ones, not the orange ones). Everything worked fine as far as reading was concerned. Yesterday, I installed plextools, wich I find sufficient for my writing needs. Plextools sees the drive but acts like if the drive wasn ot available for writing. I changed slots in order for the plextor drive to use an orange slot and now, plextools seems to be able to write via the drive. Have any of you got a clue about what could cause the drive not to be able to write when it is connected to a Gigabyte SATA port? Thanks for your attention. Huey |
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[GA-EP35C-DS3R] Plextools can't use a Plextor writer connected to the Gigabytre SATA ports
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:41:55 +0100, Hueyduck wrote:
Hello eveyone, I connected a Plextor PX-801SA drive to one of the 2 Gigabyte SATA ports (the urple ones, not the orange ones). Everything worked fine as far as reading was concerned. Yesterday, I installed plextools, wich I find sufficient for my writing needs. Plextools sees the drive but acts like if the drive wasn ot available for writing. I changed slots in order for the plextor drive to use an orange slot and now, plextools seems to be able to write via the drive. Have any of you got a clue about what could cause the drive not to be able to write when it is connected to a Gigabyte SATA port? Thanks for your attention. Huey I read the writeup for it and didn't see anything obvious - check your BIOS settings for SATA and assure legacy and *NOT* AHCI or RAID. hth |
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[GA-EP35C-DS3R] Plextools can't use a Plextor writer connectedto the Gigabytre SATA ports
Have any of you got a clue about what could cause the drive not to be able to write when it is connected to a Gigabyte SATA port? Thanks for your attention. Huey I read the writeup for it and didn't see anything obvious - check your BIOS settings for SATA and assure legacy and *NOT* AHCI or RAID. hth Thanks for your answer. I don't have the time to switch the drive again to the gigabyte controller. It works fine on the ICH9 controller, so why bother? (this is not so much a rethorical question as it is a real question: is there a reason why one would chose to connect the ATAPI devices on the gigabyte controller? I did this in the first place only because in my mind, these are "extra" ports). My BIOS says that both my SATA controllers are in AHCI mode. For the gigabyte controller (= onboard SATA/IDE), I get "IDE, AHCI, or RAID/IDE". I guess that IDE is the so called "Legacy" mode. Apart from getting my plextor DVD-writer to functiun properly, is there a reason why I shouldn't use AHCI mode? for me, this was the default mode, since I don't do RAID, and since the "Legacy mode" was a simple way not to have to load the SATA driver when one would install an XP OS. But I included the SATA drivers on the windows CD, so I was able to use the SATA mode. Thanks again for answering, Kris Huey |
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[GA-EP35C-DS3R] Plextools can't use a Plextor writer connectedto the Gigabytre SATA ports
For what it(s worth, I wanted to add that, while on AHCI mode, I
couldn't update the fimrware of the plextor drive. Huey |
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[GA-EP35C-DS3R] Plextools can't use a Plextor writer connected to the Gigabytre SATA ports
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:16:00 +0100, Hueyduck wrote:
Have any of you got a clue about what could cause the drive not to be able to write when it is connected to a Gigabyte SATA port? Thanks for your attention. Huey I read the writeup for it and didn't see anything obvious - check your BIOS settings for SATA and assure legacy and *NOT* AHCI or RAID. hth Thanks for your answer. I don't have the time to switch the drive again to the gigabyte controller. It works fine on the ICH9 controller, so why bother? (this is not so much a rethorical question as it is a real question: is there a reason why one would chose to connect the ATAPI devices on the gigabyte controller? I did this in the first place only because in my mind, these are "extra" ports). My BIOS says that both my SATA controllers are in AHCI mode. For the gigabyte controller (= onboard SATA/IDE), I get "IDE, AHCI, or RAID/IDE". I guess that IDE is the so called "Legacy" mode. Apart from getting my plextor DVD-writer to functiun properly, is there a reason why I shouldn't use AHCI mode? for me, this was the default mode, since I don't do RAID, and since the "Legacy mode" was a simple way not to have to load the SATA driver when one would install an XP OS. But I included the SATA drivers on the windows CD, so I was able to use the SATA mode. Thanks again for answering, Kris Huey Hey Huey, "is there a reason why one would chose to connect the ATAPI devices on the gigabyte controller?" I don't know - I wonder that, too..... "My BIOS says that both my SATA controllers are in AHCI mode. For the gigabyte controller (= onboard SATA/IDE), I get "IDE, AHCI, or RAID/IDE". I guess that IDE is the so called "Legacy" mode." The only reason that AHCI catches my mind is that when trying to restore Acronis images, standalone, the Linux software they use doesn't recognize stuff on AHCI, so I thought that might be the case for the Plextor, though since it's running under Windows, and Windows is taking care of all that, it shouldn't make a difference... Yes, I think ""IDE"" is what used to be ""Legacy"" in the BIOSs - I find I have to do a little "re-think" with each new board and bios, heehee. I DO like Gigabyte, though!!! But don't know what the difference is in the sata ports... " Apart from getting my plextor DVD-writer to functiun properly, is there a reason why I shouldn't use AHCI mode? for me, this was the default mode, " None that I know of. I have heard folks try to talk against it (but folks will talk against anything that's new and that they don't understand), and maintain they can't see a difference, but I think it's fine. This is still a new board for me so I haven't yet zapped vista registry and changed to AHCI (I think BIOS defaulted to IDE, but I forget - I may have set that . I mentioned the Acronis stand alone problem, but it is easy to change back to ""IDE"" on the extremely rare time if and when I have to do a stand-alone restore or partition work. So this may prod me to go to AHCI. In any case, it works for you under AHCI on the main SATA ports, so good is good. Who knows about the rest!!! |
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