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    Cant get your CLEVO D900K to read SATA 300 drives? The answer is inside

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by K-TRON, Jan 30, 2009.

  1. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    On the D900K, the version 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 boards only support SATA 150
    The 5.1 and 5.2 boards support SATA 300.
    If you have a SATA 300 drive which does not have a jumper, (i.e. Western Digital, Hitachi) you can still use the drive in a 4.X revision board.

    In my case, my replacement motherboard was a 4.2, and my hard drives are Hitachi 7K320 SATA 300 drives.
    I downloaded Hitachi Feature Tool, and used a system which can read SATA 300 drives. I booted to the CD image, Hitachi provides.
    You can download it here: (Use Nero to burn the CD image)

    http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#featuretool

    Than I changed the SATA speed to SATA 150 mode.
    Please not you need to ENABLE SPEED SPECTRUM, when doing this, or else it will not work.

    Then install your drives in your D900K/D900T, and the system will see the drives as SATA 150 drives.

    If you have a Western Digital Harddrive, the process should be the same, just use the Western Digital tools instead.

    I hope this helps,

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jan 30, 2009
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  2. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I am going to boot this up, hoping that it may help some.
    There are at least 4 threads in the alienware section and the sager forum of people having harddrive related problems on there D900T/D900K chassis

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Oct 16, 2009
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  3. oile

    oile Notebook Evangelist

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    K-TRON can I ask you if I would face problems buying an Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 (when available) and mounting it in my M570RU ??
    Thanks
     
    oile, Oct 17, 2009
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  4. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    This really applies to the D900T and D900K, cause the older boards have a SATA 150 controller, which cannot read SATA 300 drives.
    Your M570RU is newer, it should have no problem seeing a SATA 300 drive.
    But if it does, you can follow the same procedure listed above to convert your drive to SATA 150 mode

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Oct 17, 2009
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    michaeljordan1635 Notebook Enthusiast

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    michaeljordan1635, Oct 27, 2009
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  6. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    I am trying to help you out as best I can in PM's. Its hard for me to diagnose and help when I do not have any Samsung harddrives, or my D900K anymore

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Oct 27, 2009
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    leejr Newbie

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    I have tried both seagate drives sata 500gb and western digtal 320 gb ide drives and cannot get them to work I have the two original drives that work
    I even send the laptop to a local pc repair shop but all they wanted to do is keep charging me and stringing me along
     
    leejr, Oct 14, 2010
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    theriko Ronin

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    I believe that you need to set the drives in SATA I (150) mode either by jumper (only very few drives) or by using the manufacturers dos based program (on a mobo that supports SATA 300) to set it to SATA 150.

    The seagate should have jumpers like this.

    I cannot find any way of locking the WD to SATA-I speeds.
     
    theriko, Oct 16, 2010
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    leejr Newbie

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    I tried that both settings and windows is installed but laptop will not boot or anything else
     
    leejr, Nov 2, 2010
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