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

Carl Fongheiser carlfongheiser at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 16:14:19 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Johnny<jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will have to look for this. I don't see any jumpers on the drive
> itself. Is this something that would be on the motherboard? Before I
> posted here I had already changed cables and ports and the same drive
> always had problems. I even put it in an external enclosure and
> connected it via esata, with the same result.

No, it'd be on the drive, if available.  Another thought; I've
sometimes seen a motherboard disable an SATA port if a PATA drive is
connected.  If the problem follows the drive, though, that's not the
problem.

Carl Fongheiser


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