- Jun 29, 2001
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I wanted to post this in the Motherboards forum in case someone else runs into a similar situation. I had two SATA drives working with an ECS KT600-A motherboard (both under 300 GB) and wanted to replace one with a new Seagate 1TB drive from Frys. It would sometimes be recognized by the system (SATA post after main Bios post) and sometimes not (system would just freeze and show no devices found). It was driving me crazy as when it DID get recognized, I could perform a full format on it via Windows XP Pro.
I tried everything (new cable, swap to primary, etc...) including trying the hard drive in another system (which showed it working properly). I had the speed jumper set to 150 gb/sec (since that was the posted supporting SATA speed per the manuel). I then wrote to ECS tech support.
Well, just in case some other poor soul tries to get a Seagate 1TB drive going with this ECS KT600-A motherboard, here is a reply from ECS technical support when asked if this was possible.
I thought this was a weird response as SATA was not supposed to have these (size) limitations. Speed maybe (depending on age/type of mobo) but not size.
I tried everything (new cable, swap to primary, etc...) including trying the hard drive in another system (which showed it working properly). I had the speed jumper set to 150 gb/sec (since that was the posted supporting SATA speed per the manuel). I then wrote to ECS tech support.
Well, just in case some other poor soul tries to get a Seagate 1TB drive going with this ECS KT600-A motherboard, here is a reply from ECS technical support when asked if this was possible.
This motherboard will not support any HDD above 200-300GB. There are hardware specifically chipset limitations.
I thought this was a weird response as SATA was not supposed to have these (size) limitations. Speed maybe (depending on age/type of mobo) but not size.