[mythtv-users] Legacy drives and new motherboards

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 22 February 2014 00:03, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> As I said in my other reply, the mobo is fine.  I am very happy with the
> Asus mobos in general; I have 3 of them now; two in 24/7 service for 5 or 6
> years.  In fact the Z87-V Pro is a great backend mobo with 8 SATA ports.
>
> The SATA implementation on some drives is broken.  Specifically, in my case,
> the Seagate ST1500DL003 1.5TB drives don't negotiate the speed correctly.
> Of course, I have 3 of them....  The other Seagate, Hitachi, and Samsung
> drives work fine.

I have *never* had an issue plugging SATA3 disks to SATA2 controller
or vice-versa. Including with those exact same drives (still have a
few of those in production)

So yes, it sounds more like a dodgy motherboard