Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
On 31 Dec 2005 at 1:07, Gianmaria Fontana di Sacculmi wrote:
WAG, could the box's internal cabling be 40-pin and the Plextor insists
on 80 ?
Nope, the Plextor 712A has a 40 pin connector.
No, not the connector itself, but the cable that connects the drive to the
board, ie the ide cable. Many newer hard drives and new cd/dvd drives expect
an 80pin ata cable and will not work without it, unless you use the
manufacturers utility to tell the drive to run in PIO or DMA33 mode, modes
above dma33 require the 80pin cable, which is what you will have inside your
pc and is likely why the drive works fine there.
Another possible issue is that the firmware on the enclosures needs updating,
saw this same kind of thing happen with some external enclosures and some WD
and Seagate drives. The firmware on the enclosure was defaulting to pio mode
rather than dma100 so it didn't work until we got the enclosure utility and
told it to run in dma100 mode. This was for a firewire enclosure, however
same issue applies with usb2 enclosures.
This is what I was beginning to suspect myself.
My enclosure has only a 40 wire cable inside it.
Sam
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