Re: Adaptec SATA 1210 RAID and Hitachi HDD incompatibilities?

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:23:24 -0600

Did you try any of these?

http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/products/Deskstar_7K250 

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"Steve" wrote:
| Folks,
|
| I've just bought an Adaptec 1210SA SATA RAID controller and two 250GB
| Hitachi Deskstar drives and CANNOT get them to talk to each other in
| Windows 2003 Server (or XP SP1 for that matter...).
|
| I install the card, add the disks, boot up and run through the Adaptec
| configuration utilites, create myself a RAID 1 array and boot into Win
| 2003 (I'm running the OS from another IDE drive).  Computer Management
| says the 1210SA card is there and is working correctly but Disk
| Management sees nothing. No disks. I get the same problem on another
| PC running XP SP1.
|
| I've got the latest Adaptec drivers for large disks but no joy.
| Adaptec support say that the problem is with the Hitachis - something
| about the disks taking far too long to reply to an 'are you there?'
| message.  I'm getting nowhere at all with Hitachi support.
|
| Anyone else seen anything like this??
|
| Thanks
|
| Steve

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