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  don’t put 6 Gig SATA drives in your HP PC’s

  Posted by Bob Zelin on February 6, 2011 at 2:37 pm

  If you are a professional user, and own the xw or Z series HP computers (which is all that I recommend), you CANNOT install the new, super fast 6 Gig SATA drives into your HP workstations.

  What does this mean to you – it means that if you want to use 6 Gig drives, you will be buying an ATTO or Areca host adaptor.

  Bob Zelin

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  DESCRIPTION
  HP Workstations – 6Gb per second SATA hard disk drives are not supported on Workstations featuring only 1.5Gb per second (SATA Gen1) and 3Gb per second (SATA Gen2) SATA ports

  SATA 6Gb per second drives should not be installed or used in HP Workstation products that do not support SATA 6Gb per second drives.

  Symptoms:

  •SATA Hard Drives are not detected on boot-up.
  •SATA Hard Drives are missing after resuming from Sleep or Hibernate states.
  •Certain STOP Errors (BSOD)
  DETAILS
  Power cycling the system will generally result in the drives being properly detected, however use of 6Gb per second drives are not supported on the following platforms:

  •HP xw4200 Workstation
  •HP xw4300 Workstation
  •HP xw4400 Workstation
  •HP xw4600 Workstation
  •HP xw6200 Workstation
  •HP xw6400 Workstation
  •HP xw6600 Workstation
  •HP xw8200 Workstation
  •HP xw8400 Workstation
  •HP xw8600 Workstation
  •HP Z200 Small Form Factor Workstation
  •HP Z200 Workstation
  •HP Z400 Workstation
  •HP Z600 Workstation
  •HP Z800 Workstation

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  Hardware Platforms Affected: HP Z200 Small Form Factor Workstation, HP Z200 Workstation, HP Z400 Workstation, HP Z600 Workstation, HP Z800 Workstation, HP xw4200 Workstation, HP xw4300 Workstation, HP xw4400 Workstation, HP xw4600 Workstation, HP xw6200 Workstation, HP xw6400 Workstation, HP xw6600 Workstation, HP xw8200 Workstation, HP xw8400 Workstation, HP xw8600 Workstation
  Operating Systems Affected: Not Applicable
  Software Affected: Not Applicable
  Support Communication Cross Reference ID: IA02711513
  ©Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

  Bob Zelin

  Bob Zelin replied 15 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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