On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:36:10 -0800, Joie
<Joie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Hi,
>
>I recently purchased a Seagate Barracuda SATA2 320 gig hard drive which came
>installed in a mediasonic external enclosure.I formatted the drive . I also
>bought a best connectivity sata2 card with an external port which also
>installed ok. Now my problem is, I cannot get my cables that came with the
>hard drive/enclosure to work with my pci card. No instructions are provided
>either. The cables I got are one long one with a 7-pin connector on each end,
>and one shorter cable that I think is an adapter. I tried plugging these
>cable together a few ways and attatching it to the hard drive and the card
>but nothing works. Do I need different cables?
>
>Thanks![/color]

What KIND of cables, USB or SATA?

Tip: If you bought a new external SATA 2 drive and your motherboard
and BIOS FULLY support SATA, you probably will have to change things
in BIOS, perhaps download Vista drivers.

If you had some older SATA cables laying around, these don't work. The
standard calls for external SATA cables which have a different beefier
plug that pushes on a little further. If you didn't get these and
you're running a SATA2 connnection WAY faster than USB 2 then you can
find the right cables or adapters in large retail computer stores,
like Fry's, or on the web. You can also get backplanes that screw
into a empty external slot opening.

Nice closeup of the difference:

[url]http://www.satacable.com/[/url]