Posts by clarke.rainey

I was under the impression that SATA did away with jumpers... And the drive does not appear at the loading bios screen for the SATA controller...

I have recently bought another 60 GB SATA drive which is identical to the one that came in my machine... but it fails to recognize it... I am not running in raid mode and I have already used both the origional and and RMA sata cable......

I was reading on intel's website that the 6xx series had intel speedstep tech in them... since i have that chip in my 9880 I was wondering why speedstep was not enabled or working?.. I remember when I ran linux on this machine it would...

Thanks for the advice... but those are the only ones I can really find from a retailer I trust... most of the retailers I normally use do not have SATA Laptop HDs of any kind... well other than Hitachis... but they now own all the old...

Hey well I have chosen three drives that I have found that are Fujitsu sata drives... If anyone has a 9880 with the SATA drives would you please check to see if they are any of these?.. 80GB SATA 300 40 GB SATA 150 60 GB...

well unfortunately my machine is being RMAed right now so I can't check... I have the 60 GB 5400 RPM SATA Drive... if anyone has the model information on that it would be great... oh and for my linux drive... how slow would a 4200 RPM...

I was looking online at buying another HD for my laptop but I am unsure what interface I need to get... there are laptop HD's available in SATA, SATA 2, and ATA-6... which one would my 9880 use?.. I am going to end up getting something...

well to get mine working I had to make sure that my network connections would not warn me when they loose or gain a connection... mine used to start hibernating but then would go and get kicked back to the desktop because my wireless...

Well they are having me RMA my machine, so as soon as I backup everything and get back from the beach I am going to send my machine off to them... I hope I can get it back before the end of August... August 28th is when I leave the...

Well I used the drivers that came off the CD for the linux install and used the NDISwrapper utility to get them to work in linux... and they seemed to work flawlessly... along with the bluetooth... But when I use the exact same...