- #HP Z400 WINDOWS XP SATA DRIVER INSTALL#
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The plug ends of SATA and SAS drives are very much alike, and there is a "key", a plastic projection that is present on the SATA drive connectors between the SATA data and the SATA power parts of the drive's plug. I've been wanting to understand this myself.
#HP Z400 WINDOWS XP SATA DRIVER FREE#
Virtually all I have bought this way have 100% life left when probed with the free Intel ToolBox software.
#HP Z400 WINDOWS XP SATA DRIVER SERIES#
Even the 160GB 320 series one would be great for you to experiment with at a very low cost off eBay.
You can experiment with non-HP gen 3 SATA drives, but I figured I'd not risk that. they are SATA gen 2 drives and we have about 50 running this way. Personally I use Intel 320 series 300GB SSDs bought used off eBay. Read up on the recommendations by HP that if you are going to use a SATA generation 3 drive in one of the HP SATA generation 2 workstations (which yours is) then you should use a HP branded SATA gen 3 drive. Personally I'd move on to SATA SSDs, or a single SATA SSD and a nice 2TB HP HDD off eBay (SATA II or III if it is HP SATAII if it is not HP). Those can be shifted to the lower set of ports. The cables coming out from the Blind Mate receiver go down to the motherboard SATA port set (the upper set). There are posts in here on our favorite 2.5" to 3.5" form factor adapters to use with the Blind Mate system in these workstations (but that would not be an issue for you with your 3.5" drive). Perhaps the "Blind Mate" connector the drive slides into accepts both SATA and SAS drives (without the gray adapter needed?). That is not what you are asking about, but it may give you some clues. Here is the most recent version of your service manual. it is my understanding that most who did have moved on to SSDs. This implies that the SAS drives fit in those drive drawers just fine.) the workstation appears to have come from the factory preconfigured with 4 SAS drives in the drive drawers, and HP is showing how you would connect those same SAS drives to a LSI PCIe card rather than to the built in LSI controller's SAS plugs on the motherboard. the 6 SATA ports can be seen just above those cables, all empty. (Zoom in on the top image, and it shows 4 Blind Mate connectors attached to the bottom SAS ports in this particular Z800. In contrast, SATA ports are "0"-"5", for 6 total.) (see #6 re Z800 down at the bottom, regarding moving the Blind Mate connectors from SATA ports to SAS ports (just below on the motherboard, the set of 8). There is a hard coded identifier difference coming into play there.) Of interest, an image from an old version 1 Z600 would not clone over to a newer version 2 Z600, but one from a version 2 will clone over to another version 2 Z600. As such, this image can generally be cloned from one Z800 to another.
#HP Z400 WINDOWS XP SATA DRIVER INSTALL#
Such an install (from the HP Restore media) includes the necessary drivers and also the HP OEM COA license that is linked to your general HP workstation type.
That is what the "Restore" image and media creation idea is all about. HP makes their clone image masters with the necessary added drivers included on that image. you have to know to add those in after the clean install or your USB3 ports won't work. This same thing happens with a Z620 and its on-board TI USB3 chipset. (The important point here is that a normal "clean" W7Pro64 install will not include the necessary LSI drivers. (This is a HP document about RAID setup with SAS or SATA drives, for your Z800) I did a little more research and here it is:
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