pioneer DVR-215

[pluto_00]

pioneer DVR-215

drive came in today

i plugged power on the drive and plugged the sata cable ...

not recognized in BIOS

not seen in windows

Updated my asus P5K motherboard to latest bios ==> still no succes ...

I searched crazy about it but there is not much to find on the subject ...

I posted on the asus forum but no one is responding ...

I even hooked it too my VIA VT 6421 L sata card but still no result ...
Would the drive be DOA ???
Can i double check this ?

[sadalius]

It is possible to get something thats DOA. It's happened to me about 5 times over the past 12 years of ordering stuff online. Does the drive show signs of live when you turn on the PC? Can you eject the drive and such?

[pluto_00]

Man you never believe this ...

I feel so stupid :p

I flashed my bios and stuff like that any possible thing
Because Yes it showed some signs of life ! like blinking the led when i booted up.

But the problem was the SATA cable !!!

WTF it was a new cable ... I putted in some old one and the drive popped up in my bios ... so everything works fine !!!

[CoFree]

that kind of crap drives me nuts.
it's so hard to make sure you dont over think things.
glad you got it

[sadalius]

Yeah, glad you got it. That would have been my next suggestion had it shown signs of life but you hadn't figured it out, but you did figure it out