WD3200BPVT compatibility with latest software

[osity]

I have tried a bunch of WD 320GB - WD WD3200BPVT drives and none are able to autodetect the family on the PC-3000 (latest version).
Can someone verify that they autodetect with the latest version of the software?

Ace keeps blaming bad connection/SATA cables, which it's not as other models all detect and work fine.

Can someone verify?

[digitalsupport]

Latest version 6.6.36.7175
WD3200BPVT detects fine here, for all 3 families Zephyr, Jamaica 4K and Jamaica 4KV

[osity]

I assume you mean WD3200BPVT... Thank you.
I tried six drives I had lying around and none of them detected in the PC-3000. They all have some issue but the strange thing is some of them work perfectly fine in Windows, despite not being auto detected in PC3K.

[osity]

Here's something weird. Someone brought in a WD WD3200BPVT today and I hooked it up to the PC-3000 and it detected as a Seagate:

Model : ST9320325AS
Serial : 6VDC44HD
Firmware : 0002CE02
Capacity : 320 GB (625 142 448)


How does this happen?

[osity]

Not sure if it changed anything but this came out of an Xbox....

[digitalsupport]

Source of the post Here's something weird. Someone brought in a WD WD3200BPVT today and I hooked it up to the PC-3000 and it detected as a Seagate:

Model : ST9320325AS
Serial : 6VDC44HD
Firmware : 0002CE02
Capacity : 320 GB (625 142 448)


How does this happen?

And how are they detected in Windows when connected to SATA ?

[Maxim_TS]

Source of the post Not sure if it changed anything but this came out of an Xbox....

maybe there is module 02 changed in these drives, to be compatible with XBOX FW. Select any similar family manually, block SA access in ROM, restart the drive, upload Dir and loader to RAM and compare module 02 with same FW donor's one.

[osity]

digitalsupport,

In a windows HDD diagnostic program, (HDD Sentinel), it also detects the drive as a Seagate.
It makes sense what Maxim says, Maybe the Xbox changes module 2. Xbox's also have an native internal storage so maybe that one is a Seagate and it just matches the brand of the internal one for some Xbox reason.
Pretty strange.

[digitalsupport]

Have seen that before, so +1 for Maxim´s explanation.