I bought a WD Caviar Black SATA 6Gb/s HDD and it is not being detected. I have 2 older SATA II HDDs and they work fine (and they've worked fine for the past 3 years). For the new HDD, I can hear the disk spinning (so not DOA right?). I've also tried both the Intel and the Marvell SATA ports, as well as different cables (even the included 6Gb/s cable) and different ports.
HDD:
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0036Q7MV0Motherboard:
Rampage III Extreme BIOS Revision 1502
Marvell 88SE91xx Adapter BIOS 1.0.0.1019
BIOS Settings:
All SATA ports set to Auto-detect with SMART monitoring enabled
Stroage Configuration, Configure SATA as AHCI
Onboard SATA6G controller in AHCI mode (I've also tried IDE mode)
With the Intel ICH10R controller SATA ports, the HDD is not detected in the BIOS. It takes a long time to POST, getting stuck at the "Auto-Detecting SATA PORT 2" step. In the BIOS -> Main -> AHCI Configuration, the HDD is not detected
With a Windows 7 install disc, the HDD is not detected
With the Marvell controller SATA ports, the HDD is detected during post as 0 MB. In the BIOS, it appears in Boot -> Boot Device Priority as "IDE: S0".
With a Windows 7 install disc, the HDD is detected as 0 MB.
In both cases, the HDD is not in My Computer in Windows 8. It also doesn't show up in Disk Management, even after a rescan discs. I couldn't find any Windows 8 drivers for the Marvell controller.
Anyone have any ideas? I need to work with Windows 8 - either controller is fine with me. Or even just having the BIOS detect its size is fine with me.
