Glad to see that worked. I was pretty sure that was the issue, but it is nice to get validation. I may consider doing the same at some point too.
For anyone else, here is the context. Shucking is the removal of drives that came in an external enclosure, and putting them inside a PC. The issue is they are sometimes drives made for enterprise, NAS use etc that failed certification for those, but work for lower standards. They can have a safety, or power saving feature that when there is power on the 3.3V… See More
line, the drive enters a reset loop. Enclosures therefore do not provide that voltage line to the drive, as it isn't actually required to power it. But the standard SATA power connector in a PC does, and so the drives will sometimes fail to function in a desktop PC, not even appearing in the BIOS.
The fix is to disconnect the 3.3V line to the drive, as Clay did in this example with an insulating tape (Kapton) over the relevant pin on the power connector.
Useful to either repurpose a drive, or to allow recovery when some other part of an enclosure fails, but the drive is otherwise working.
Glad to see that worked.
I was pretty sure that was the issue, but it is nice to get validation.
I may consider doing the same at some point too.
For anyone else, here is the context.
Shucking is the removal of drives that came in an external enclosure, and putting them inside a PC.
The issue is they are sometimes drives made for enterprise, NAS use etc that failed certification for those, but work for lower standards.
They can have a safety, or power saving feature that when there is power on the 3.3V… See More
line, the drive enters a reset loop.
Enclosures therefore do not provide that voltage line to the drive, as it isn't actually required to power it.
But the standard SATA power connector in a PC does, and so the drives will sometimes fail to function in a desktop PC, not even appearing in the BIOS.
The fix is to disconnect the 3.3V line to the drive, as Clay did in this example with an insulating tape (Kapton) over the relevant pin on the power connector.
Useful to either repurpose a drive, or to allow recovery when some other part of an enclosure fails, but the drive is otherwise working.
2 Likes