My only excuse for asking this question here is that I am running CentOS-6.5 on my HP MicroServer. I recently purchased a 2TB WD hard drive (WD20ESRX), and was surprised to find that the power-connector on this drive did not seem to be in the correct place for the drive-bay. (The drive bay closes, but the disk does not spin.) The power connector on the drive is further from the SATA connectors than on the other 4 drives I have in my two MicroServers - it is about 2/3 of the way across the back of the drive, on the opposite side to the SATA connectors. I'm surprised because I always thought that the positions of the connectors on SATA hard drives was standard. How can I find whether or not a hard drive will connect properly in the drive-bay? Was I unlucky to choose a drive that did not fit? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
On 02/06/2014 07:57 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:> My only excuse for asking this question here > is that I am running CentOS-6.5 on my HP MicroServer. > > I recently purchased a 2TB WD hard drive (WD20ESRX), > and was surprised to find that the power-connector on this drive > did not seem to be in the correct place for the drive-bay. > (The drive bay closes, but the disk does not spin.) > > The power connector on the drive is further from the SATA connectors > than on the other 4 drives I have in my two MicroServers - > it is about 2/3 of the way across the back of the drive, > on the opposite side to the SATA connectors.You don't by any chance have it upside down? -- Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court Linux/UNIX Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 tkevans at tkevans.com
On 2/6/2014 17:57, Timothy Murphy wrote:> > I recently purchased a 2TB WD hard drive (WD20ESRX),From where? A search on wdc.com says there is no such part number. Did you mean E*Z*RX? Can you take pictures of the drive, both sides, and post them for our perusal?