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On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Stroller |
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<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On 18 June 2012, at 15:39, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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>>> It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in |
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>>> a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would |
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>>> operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any |
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>>> analogous steps for the 4TB drives? |
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>> I don't remember seeing any jumpers at all. I'll take another look when I get back there. |
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> With some drives this is done in software / firmware. |
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> 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. |
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> From experience, if the motherboard / SATA controller is old enough you will *definitely* have to set the drives to 1.5Gb/s. |
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A thought...if the system is old enough that it only has PCI and PCI-X |
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(as opposed to PCIe), then it's definitely not going to have USB3. |
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Perhaps putting attaching the USB3 enclosure to the system by way of a |
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USB2 hub might work? |
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Otherwise, the firmware adjustment might be the way to go. (Or a |
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motherboard upgrade...) |
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