it spools and when connected to the raid controler (the first port i plugged into) i can look at the drive and play with raid info if i ctrl-F pre boot which is the only place the drive is visible, but since i switched to the (supposedly) correct port that's gone, from the crap i've read about it's probably going to be a bios/driver problem, common?! problem with this board
maybe it wants me to buy 3 more drives and build a array, i need that like i need a sore cock 

Originally Posted by
Jon K
Winfred - hold the drive in your hand with the power and SATA connected - do you feel/hear the drive spool up? I've received DOA drives before.
all america wants is cold beer warm cat and a place to take a poop with a door on it