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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Setup: |
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> amd Athlon64 +3400 architecture |
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> I'm attempting to replace 2 200gb sata drives with 2 750 gb drives. |
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> All drives concerned are WD. |
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> And the 2 200gb are attached to a: |
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> Adeptec 1205sa PCI sata card (non-raid) |
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> The two existing drives have been working fine but need more room so |
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> replacing with 2 750gb. |
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> I thought I'd try replacing one first and see how it went. |
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> I hit a snag on the first swap. Pulled out the 200gb and inserted a |
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> 750 but it turns out that the new drive, unlike my older 200gb drives |
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> does not have the old 4pin power connector that I expected. |
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> I see some other connectors in the wiring harness that look like they |
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> go to the larger (non-data) fitting on these new sata drives. Its |
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> about twice as wide as the data plug but has the same little 90 degree |
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> hook on one end. |
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> The matching plugs on the wiring harness appear to be made for this so |
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> I go ahead and plug it in, and fire up the machine. |
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> As boot up proceeds it gets by the brief memory check then comes a |
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> screen saying: |
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> Press F3 to enter configuration utility |
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> Primary channel: WDC WD750-blah-bah <= my new 750gb drive |
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> So I guess this is coming from the Adeptec 1205sa card and press |
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> F3... but nothing happens, and no further progress appears possible. |
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> Rebooting and ignoring the `Press F3' screen doesn't allow boot to |
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> proceed either. |
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> So I appear to be stuck and unable to boot up. |
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> The boot disk is not on sata and is not involved in the swap. |
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> Anyone see anthing similar or have a suggestion. |
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Sounds like the bios is seeing the drives in a different order now to |
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before, and so is trying to boot from the wrong disk.... |
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Can you manually alter the order it tries disks? |