8KDA3+ and Maxtor SATA drives

[CoolerQ]

Hi-
I just got an EPoX 8KDA3+ motherboard, and two 300 GB Maxtor SATA drives from New Egg. I hooked them up to the SiL SATA controller (which has better Linux support), and started installing Fedora Core 3. Until... the installer hung. Examining the logs revealed I/O errors while writing to one of the disks.

So, I ran PowerMax, Maxtor's diagnostic tool, and it reported that both drives are "failing". Keep in mind they're brand new drives.

Are they bad drives, or could there be an incompatibility between Maxtor drives and the 8KDA3+ motherboard?

Thanks,
--Quentin

[GrahamGarside]

are you overclocked? and have you locked the pci/agp bus if so?

[Oldjim]

I am running a single maxtor plus 9 160gb sata drive on the Nvidia controller without any problems.
Try putting the drives on this and running a check.

[gedon]

Maybe I have the same problem. I think there are some problems with the USB on backpanel. Try to use PS2 keyboard and mouse or use the 4 extra USB. SIL controller and the 4 USB on backpanel use the same INT as you can see in your manual.

[graz]

Originally Posted by gedon

Maybe I have the same problem. I think there are some problems with the USB on backpanel. Try to use PS2 keyboard and mouse or use the 4 extra USB. SIL controller and the 4 USB on backpanel use the same INT as you can see in your manual.

hmm, I didnt know that, I have two devices in the back USB, a printer and a gamepad controller, and im using the sil sata controller, and i havent had any problems. Maybe since the infrequent use of the printer/gamepad. I dunno.