Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[ultradust]

On my computer, the speeds are different between a 3GB/s drive and a 6GB/s drive. To me, it looks like the faulty drives are reporting, via the drive chipset, that they can only do 3GB/s, so the SATA controller is only allowing that speed.

My mainboard is a Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5R with a Marvell 9128 SATA III RAID controller. (I've also got access to an AMD and another Marvell controller, and the faulty drives report the same on each.)

[Cantbecanit]

I assume you have loaded the  

Marvell Console Driver (SATA3)

1.0.0.1027

0.30 MB

2009/11/10

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3258#driver

It could also be that the board pre-dates the 3TB drive, so the tech wasn't available to fully recognise the newer spec drive, if the console driver isn't the issue I would send Gigabyte a mail and ask if they know of any incompatabilities and possible fixes.

[joelsplace]

Adaptec has issues with 3TB drives.  They sent me a special firmware for my 6445 to supposedly fix it.  I am also using the 3TB Seagate XT with CC44 firmware.  I'm linking at 6.0Gb/s but I'm getting errors.  I just installed the 18304 firmware and am still getting the errors.  Time to call Adaptec again.  If anyone wants the firmware I can email it to you.

[Cantbecanit]

Thx, I suspected this a while ago, cheers for confirming it.

[playtoys]

I just installed an ST33000651AS with FW CC43.  It shows as 3.0Gb/s transfer rate in BIOS.  I have an Intel DZ68DB mobo that supports SATA III.  I've tried all the ports and multiple cables. No luck.

Seagate still doesn't have a CC44 download available.  Did anyone get this working?

HD Tune Pro: ST33000651AS             Information

Firmware version : CC43
Serial number    :             [Edited: Removed personal information per the community rules and regulations.]
Capacity         : 3000.6 gB (2794.5 GB)
Buffer size      : n/a
Sector size      : 512 bytes
Standard         : ATA8-ACS - SATA II
Supported mode   : UDMA Mode 6
Current mode     : UDMA Mode 6
Avergae speed    : 113 MB/s
Rotation speed   : 7200 RPM

S.M.A.R.T                    : yes
48-bit Address               : yes
Read Look-Ahead              : yes
Write Cache                  : yes
Host Protected Area          : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Firmware Upgradable          : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: yes
Power Management             : yes
Advanced Power Management    : no
Interface Power Management   : no
Power-up in Standby          : no
Security Mode                : yes
SCT Tables                   : yes
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) : yes
Trim                         : no

Volume        : Data (E
Capacity      : 2861458 MB
Free          : 2569568 MB
Usage         : 10%
File system   : NTFS
Serial        : A255-25B9
Alignment     : 1 MB

[Cantbecanit]

What sort of speeds are drive to drive transfers achieving?

It maybe saying it's 3GB/s, but if it's transfering a 500mb file in a matter of 30 or less seconds then it would seem it's just a reported bug but the drive is moving it as it should be.

Just noticed you have this as a blank drive, if your boot drive is sata 2 then it might just be that it caps all other drives, where if this was the boot drive it would show the 6GB/s, bit like slow and fast memory, the PC drops the faster ones back to match the slower ones.

[Klausio]

Same issue here

I have a LSI 9260-8i and I have 5 disks in a Raid6 array. The MegaRAID software tells me that 1disk is running @6Gbps and the 4disk are running @3Gbps.The MegaRAID software gives me also the firmware of the disks, the 6Gbps disk has FW CC44 and the 4 3Gbps disks have FW CC43.

I have disconnected 2 FW 43 disks from the array and put them back on the array with no luck the disks still running @3Gpbs.

So I do think it is a firmware issue here.

[Cantbecanit]

How are these connected bud?

Most MB's have only two 6GB/s slots, some have four on higher end boards, is it not possible you have 1 running 6 GB/s as the boot and the others although one or maybe more but not all are on 6 GB/s ports so the raid slows it all down to the only standard that all the drives can comply to in this set up?

[Klausio]

Connected true the LSI 9260-8i raid-controller as a RAID6 array, as mentioned in my previous message. In the MegaRAID software I can see on what speeds the drives are running. So the software gives me that 1 drive is running @6Gbps with FW CC44 and 4 drives are running @3Gbps with FW CC43.

See the pics, right upper corner is the FW version of the disk, link speed is also in the pic

[Klausio]

And here pic 2