[dba-Tech] SATA drive

John W. Colby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Jan 3 05:58:22 CST 2005


Jim,

In case you haven't found it:

http://msihq.designlab.info/board.php?boardid=28

This is the MSI forum for their 64 bit boards.  I think that the board will
work with 4gb, it just needs specific memory dimms.  I do not have that
board however; I have the Neo platinum which is the 754 pin version.  BTW,
the memory controller is now in the Athlon64 chip itself which removes the
problem from the northbridge (in fact the northbridge disappears entirely).
There are still potential issues of wire routing on the board but these are
usually handled pretty well and don't cause problems.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of James Moss
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:43 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] SATA drive


Jon,

Some of the newer power supplies do have SATA power cables. Western Digital
SATA drives have both styles of power receptacles built into the drive or at
least the 37 gig Raptors do. That's the only SATA drive that I've worked
with. I've ordered parts for a new system with 4 of the 74 gig Raptors and
hope that they have 4 pin connectors.

While on the subject has anyone had experience with the MSI K8N Neo 2
Platinum board and 4 gb of ram? I was reading that the board would not give
you the full 4 gigs due to chipset design and wondered how much of the ram
would be usable. I had also read that systems with 4 gigs or ram might not
be stable. Any comments appreciated.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 5:38 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] SATA drive

Ah, I've seen those, but didn't know what they were for... might have been
an idea if they'd given us that cable with the motherboard though... Thanks
James


Jon

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of James Moss
Sent: 02 January 2005 22:12
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [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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