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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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Lord_Abyss
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Problem with my HDD

September 9th, 2013, 5:40

Hy i buy one HDD sata3 but i have in my motherbord(k8v-x) just sata 1&2 and i can't format or enter in hdd please help me !!!
fzabkar
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Re: Problem with my HDD

September 9th, 2013, 18:23

Some HDDs can be configured for lower SATA link speeds. For example, WD drives have an OPT1 jumper.
Lord_Abyss
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Re: Problem with my HDD

September 10th, 2013, 4:39

you say that i can't do nothing now ?
i buy this hdd for nothing :rip: there must be somthing to do please i want just to format the hdd ...
fzabkar
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Re: Problem with my HDD

September 10th, 2013, 5:01

Your motherboard has the VIA VT8237 SATA controller. This controller is limited to 1.5Gbps.

https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Sata_via

If you have a WD drive, then install its OPT1 jumper. Otherwise purchase an add-on SATA card.
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