[mythtv-users] backend system won't detect a drive

[Carl Fongheiser]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Mike
Perkins<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> The other good gotcha with HDDs is to check the drive selection jumpers. We
> had a couple perfectly good drives at the last place I worked that just
> wouldn't function outside the original system. Turned out they both had 'CS'
> (cable select) when we needed to set them master and slave.

Completely irrelevant for SATA drives.

There is a jumper that may make a difference, though.  Some drives
don't negotiate speed properly with some motherboards, so there's a
jumper to force the drive to operate at SATA 1 speed.  It's worth a
look.

Carl Fongheiser