[dba-Tech] SATA drive

You have to give the drive some power. If the power supply doesn't have SATA
power cables, you will need to get a SATA to 4 pin converter cable. Check
out this link
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=12-104-652&depa=0

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 3:58 PM
To: Dba-Tech
Subject: [dba-Tech] SATA drive

My dad and I were putting his new pc together earlier, and having persuaded
him to get a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 SATA hard drive, cos they're ultra
reliable and really fast, we've found that we can't make it work... I've got
the red SATA cable, and that's plugged in ok, but what else do I have to do?
BIOS can't see the drive, it doesn't feel like it's moving, and although the
pc will boot off the WinXP cd, it can't find anywhere to install it... The
back of the drive has a smallish pci type connector that looks like it
should plug into something, but that the the SATA socket are the only places
to plug things into, and there's nothing to plug into this... There are no
other cables, there's nowhere to plug a power cable in (that's obvious as a
power supply), what have we missed?

I'm completely at a loss here, and I don't like that :-)


Jon

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