I don’t thing isnothing to do wiht the bios setting, because if i plug another hdd in the same Sata connection is reconized perfectly, as well i try to swap all power and data connection cable, so nothing on this side.
same problem with a Gigabyte GA- K8VM800M motherboard replaced two WD raptors with two WD15EARS and Bios says HDD attached, yet WDEARS recognised in ext USB dock. What gives?
I had a similar problem with a new WD5000AAKS recently (see my other post further down … ) … If it’s not spinning up then it might not be recoverable. I tried all sorts of things to try and get mine going again without result … I even bought a USB to IDE/SATA adaptor which of course doesn’t go through the BIOS … still not spinning …
I now have a direct replacement which seems to be OK … so far …
WD15EARS now recognised - needed to set jumpers 5-6 to limit to sata 1 and now MB recognises HDD. But now my 2X1.5TB have both turned into 500Gb, this has been well documented with seagte 1.5TB drives - http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=741282
But not sure if WD has a solution. Sounds as though WD15EARS and the Gigabyte K8VM800M are incompatible
Yes the Gigabyte motherboard with express recovery Bios, have the latest BIOS, used acronis to clone the boot image onto the WD15EARS as a usb external HDD then connected ran advanced format utility and then connected as boot drive and everyting worked fine until I added a second WDEARS and tried to setup Raid 1 but mirror drive was noted to be 500GB so didn’t create mirror then went to reboot from single WD15EARS and wouldn’t boot saying file missing and Partition was now only on 500GB on boot drive.
will try and reset capacity. thx for advice, not going to use these WD15ears as now I find out they are not much good for Raid.