Maxtor SATA Diagnostics needed

[paul.rowling]

Hi,

I need diagnostic program for a Maxtor SATA hard drive. The one on the maxtor website appears to work on IDE drives only.
Can anyone assist?

Thanks

Paul

[confus-ed]

Hi paul, I think I just suggested trying 'seatools' (here@seagate ) on another thread, that claims to work, but I've had mixed success (& failure!) with it..

The problem appears to be with the fact that most sata drives are being controlled via a Raid controller, so its not needing something to test a sata drive at all (you can connect 'em up with a convereter & all the old utils work, as that's exactly what I've been doing for a bit) but finding test programs that can deal with the pressence of a raid controller 'in the way'.

[MobilePCPhysician]

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...downloadID=113

[TechZ]

Have you tried it with the SATA drive?

www.maxtor.com -->Software Downloads-->ATA Hard Drives-->PowerMax 4.21 Bootable CD-->Download and burn to cd.

[paul.rowling]

Hi,

I have tried Powermax 4.21, but it won't run past when you have to press F8 to continue. It simply drops back to the command prompt. I have experienced this many times with SATA drives. The powermax software simply won't run.
Are there any other generic diagnostic programs I could use?

Cheers

Paul

[confus-ed]

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...downloadID=113

..PowerMax v 4.21 will not detect ATA or SATA hard disks connected to embedded, or add in RAID controllers, NVIDIA Force 3, Force 4, VIA KT 600 and KT 800 chipsets. If the hard disk is connected to an unsupported controller, it will have to be moved to an alternate system, or controller for diagnosis..

You can find notes like this attached to all of what I'll call 'old ide utilities' .. the problem isn't what's connected, its how its connected ..

[slgrieb]

P.R, did we cross signals or what? Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test is not brand specific. It can create bootable diskettes or CDs. Just to be sure things hadn't changed, I downloaded a fresh copy, and v4.05 still runs on any brand of drive and supports SATA. Once again, the URL is: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

[paul.rowling]

Hi,

Just to let you know that the seatools program didn't work, however the Hitachi Fitness Test worked great.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Paul