SATA Issues

[HostileIntent]

So I just got a new Western Digital SATA HD for storage purposes. When I went to hook it up to one of my motherboard's two SATA ports (the other of which is occupied by my primary Hitachi SATA drive) and I turned the comp on, my bios freaked. It claimed that it didn't detect any hard drives connected. When I disconnected the Western Digital HD and only left my Hitachi drive connected, it detected the Hitachi. I then connected my Western Digital again (while leaving the Hitachi connected) and once again my bios detected no drives connected to the mobo.

I've tested both sata cables, they both work
I've tested both sata ports on the mobo, they both work
I've tested all power cords, legacy and SATA, and they all work
Obviously I have SATA drivers installed

Unfortunately I can't test whether the hd was DOA because no other computers in my house have SATA, although I will say that when I tried hooking the new HD up by itself, the bios detected no hard drives attached. What should I do :x

[Apathy]

I noticed you forgot to mention that you checked THE JUMPER SETTINGS...

:army:

[Rob_F]

I noticed you forgot to mention that you checked THE JUMPER SETTINGS...

:army:

Yes. Try limiting the drive to 150 mb/sec mode.

Western Digital's newer SATA hard drives, particularly the WD800, are tempermental and incompatible (even when jumper-restricted to 150mb/sec, they still fail to function properly with the SATA-I boards I've used) in my experience with them. They're also noisy, run hot, and underperform Maxtor and Seagate drives; the one I bought failed within two months and the RMA'd replacement (which was promptly handled) is now also making unusual head noise. I don't trust any important data with it.

Get a Seagate. 16 megs of cache, Native Command Queuing, and superior reliability make this drive my personal favourite. I've recommended it to many people, and they've all loved them and have had no problems to date.

[HostileIntent]

Thanks Rob and Apathy, I set the hd to 150mb/sec mode and it worked :)