2TB Hard Drive won't work on Marvell 6GB SATA port

Maguscreed said:

Don't hold your breath, you'll die.

I was promised a response within 24 hours. We're now going on about 26, so you might be right :)

Britton30 said:

Looks like you will need to put the 2TB drive in an enclsure and try to run WD LifeGuard tests to see if it is a bad one. From all indications its not working at all. I saw several negative reviews, along with good.

What do you mean by enclosure? I have sever other machines with Sata II ports I could use. Could I run LifeGuard on the drive with one of those?

Britton30 said:

Looks like you will need to put the 2TB drive in an enclsure and try to run WD LifeGuard tests to see if it is a bad one. From all indications its not working at all. I saw several negative reviews, along with good.

Here are the results of a Quick Test.

Test Option: QUICK TEST
Model Number: WDC WD2002FAEX-007BA0
Unit Serial Number: WD-WMAY01524304
Firmware Number: 05.01D05
Capacity: 2000.40 GB
SMART Status: PASS
Test Result: PASS
Test Time: 22:14:17, June 08, 2011

I will run an extended test over night, but I have a feeling the results will be the same. I don't think anything is wrong with the drive itself.

GeneO said:

Are you using the Marvell drivers and AHCI? If so you should try using the vanilla Windows AHCI driver. I use those rather than the Marvell myself.

Is your BIOS up-to-date? Any Marvell BIOS update will probably be bundled in the Motherboard BIOS update. Make sure you want to do this though, as you usually can;t flash your BIOS back to a previous version. See if there are BIOS release notes of changes that may address this issue - or wait for Intel support.

I am currently using the Marvell drivers and AHCI, but I began by using the vanilla Windows AHCI driver, which gave the same results.

BIOS are flashed and up-to-date.