Doom9
17th October 2009, 16:32
I'm wondering.. has anybody gotten that setup to work (internal SATA interface)?
I've tried two, with multiple drives and failed miserably - the behavior I'm seeing is repeatable on multiple machines of completely different hardware (Shuttle SP35p2 Pro Barebone, HP nx9420 notebook and a Mac Mini 2009) with an LG GGW-H20L and LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray burner/reader and an Optiarc DVD burner (don't recall the model right now but it's brand new).
Connect the box to a machine running XP or Vista (running on the same hardware- I installed multiple operating systems just to make sure) we have no problem (doesn't matter if 64bit or 32bit), even when booting into Mac OS on the mini there's no issue. Likewise, put a harddisk into the box and you're fine. Also, using an external box that contains the drive (tried with Xbox HDDVD drive and the LG external Blu-ray burner) is no problem either.
And here's the phenomenon:
Connect the drive and power on.. it is recognized by Window as usual. Put in the first disc and if you're lucky, you get as far as autorun but eventually you'll run into files that just cannot be read. On other discs, you don't even get a full directory listing.. the main directory could be missing files, there could be missing folders, etc. Eject the disc and the drive doesn't appear from the list in Win7 (that's one of the new things with W7.. by default it doesn't show empy drives), put in a new disc and it shows the contents of the old disc.
Unplug the drive and replug and the whole thing starts a new.
Needless to say that I searched for the latest chipset drivers (both the notebook and barebone use intel chipsets.. ) but to no avail.
I eventually gave up and got the external LG Blu-ray burner (just in time to get one that still reads HD DVDs) as the support for the enclosures (one's an Icy Box so their suggestion was to install new drivers) was useless (what do you expect.. ). With the System Builder release out now and the retail coming next week I think we'll be seeing a lot more of that now and manufacturers will finally have to start caring.
I've tried two, with multiple drives and failed miserably - the behavior I'm seeing is repeatable on multiple machines of completely different hardware (Shuttle SP35p2 Pro Barebone, HP nx9420 notebook and a Mac Mini 2009) with an LG GGW-H20L and LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray burner/reader and an Optiarc DVD burner (don't recall the model right now but it's brand new).
Connect the box to a machine running XP or Vista (running on the same hardware- I installed multiple operating systems just to make sure) we have no problem (doesn't matter if 64bit or 32bit), even when booting into Mac OS on the mini there's no issue. Likewise, put a harddisk into the box and you're fine. Also, using an external box that contains the drive (tried with Xbox HDDVD drive and the LG external Blu-ray burner) is no problem either.
And here's the phenomenon:
Connect the drive and power on.. it is recognized by Window as usual. Put in the first disc and if you're lucky, you get as far as autorun but eventually you'll run into files that just cannot be read. On other discs, you don't even get a full directory listing.. the main directory could be missing files, there could be missing folders, etc. Eject the disc and the drive doesn't appear from the list in Win7 (that's one of the new things with W7.. by default it doesn't show empy drives), put in a new disc and it shows the contents of the old disc.
Unplug the drive and replug and the whole thing starts a new.
Needless to say that I searched for the latest chipset drivers (both the notebook and barebone use intel chipsets.. ) but to no avail.
I eventually gave up and got the external LG Blu-ray burner (just in time to get one that still reads HD DVDs) as the support for the enclosures (one's an Icy Box so their suggestion was to install new drivers) was useless (what do you expect.. ). With the System Builder release out now and the retail coming next week I think we'll be seeing a lot more of that now and manufacturers will finally have to start caring.