I have had this problem on my homebrew unit twice, (repair seemed to have fixed it), two SATA 500Gb Samsung Spinrites and two SATA 500Gb Seagate Barracuda. The unit has 1Gb of fast RAM. Foxconn 946GZ/PL7MA motherboard.
Is it truly the drive or is there (heaven help me for suggesting this) a bug in the somewhere?
I assume that the "system disk" will always be SATA connector 1 on the motherboard, can anybody confirm this, as, if the drive is truly defective I want to remove it from the system and replace it, but the software only reports that it is one of the seagates.
Any help gratefully accepted
PME
Note: this was in a post about warranty failure on an HP unit but i got no responses