From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hadmut Danisch Subject: Re: BIOS does not recognize 500GB-disk Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:31:01 +0200 Message-ID: <468BCB45.3010600@msgid.danisch.de> References: <20070703225517.GA22912@danisch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sklave3.rackland.de ([88.198.248.38]:52660 "EHLO sklave3.rackland.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751439AbXGDQfI (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:35:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Justin Piszcz Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Turn off NCQ on the drive, limit to 1.5GBps operation, try again, I have > the same issue with a new RAPTOR (NCQ) and old motherboard. Yup, that was the problem. The VIA chipset did not support SATA-II. I had to set a jumper on the disk to slow it down to SATA-I. Unfortunately, they didn't tell that jumper setting on the disk's sticker, and the disk didn't come with a jumper, so it was not obvious. Thanks and regards Hadmut