Been there too.
I've had more than one SATA cable go haywire.
We live and learn.
   
Tony Wood
   
On 27/11/13 21:49, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Thanks again for all the potentially useful replies.
>
> I found an older SATA drive with a 1.5Gb/3Gb jumper -- that wouldn't 
> work either.
>
> And then, guess what?  I replaced the SATA cable, and now it all works 
> perfectly.
>
> Try not to think of it as time wasted, more as a lesson (re-)learnt.
>
> In my defence, the cable must have been border-line: it was working 
> very recently (i.e. this morning).
>
> cheers
>
> Chris
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