On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18 June 2012, at 15:39, [email protected] wrote: >>> ... >>> It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in >>> a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would >>> operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any >>> analogous steps for the 4TB drives? >> >> I don't remember seeing any jumpers at all. I'll take another look when I >> get back there. > > With some drives this is done in software / firmware. > > I think you mentioned these drives are Hitachi - previous models of their > drives were set using their "Hard-drive Feature Tool" bootable CD (e.g. > ftool_215.iso). This now appears to be obsolete, but they may offer a newer > alternative. > > From experience, if the motherboard / SATA controller is old enough you will > *definitely* have to set the drives to 1.5Gb/s.
A thought...if the system is old enough that it only has PCI and PCI-X (as opposed to PCIe), then it's definitely not going to have USB3. Perhaps putting attaching the USB3 enclosure to the system by way of a USB2 hub might work? Otherwise, the firmware adjustment might be the way to go. (Or a motherboard upgrade...) -- :wq
