Hi,

I am using the SATA cables that came with the drive and enclosure and cannot
get them to work. I don't know what kind of cables I need all I know is what
I have doesn't work, and my pci card says nothing about needing to buy
anything additional to attach my drive

"Adam Albright" wrote:
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> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:36:10 -0800, Joie
> <Joie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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> >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]
>
>
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