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SATA II backward compatibility
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Coveredinbees!!!!
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I bought a couple of SATA II hard drives to go on to my Asus A7v600 motherboard which is actually SATA 1.0, fitted with a Via VT8237. The drives are Hitachi deskstar drives which on the sellers web site are described as
'The drive is also backward compatible for those wishing to upgrade their storage of SATA 1.0 systems.'
I cannot get my SATA controller to see the drives and they are not fitted with jumpers to force then to SATA 1.0 - 1.5 Gb transfer rate, I'm guessing this is why the controller isn't seeing them. I have upgraded my bios and all the drives for the sata/raid controller to the latest versions but to no avail. Have I missed something? Do you think the fact they have no jumpers to force to 1.5GB makes the statement that they are backwardly compatible untrue or was I just wrong to assume they would work?
'The drive is also backward compatible for those wishing to upgrade their storage of SATA 1.0 systems.'
I cannot get my SATA controller to see the drives and they are not fitted with jumpers to force then to SATA 1.0 - 1.5 Gb transfer rate, I'm guessing this is why the controller isn't seeing them. I have upgraded my bios and all the drives for the sata/raid controller to the latest versions but to no avail. Have I missed something? Do you think the fact they have no jumpers to force to 1.5GB makes the statement that they are backwardly compatible untrue or was I just wrong to assume they would work?
Nothing to see here, move along.
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Hi,
this may not be of any use to you at all.....
when u say you updated all the drives I assume you mean drivers?
have u updated the chipset drivers?0 -
you probably have to pop a jumper in to force the speed down to 1.5. Should be instruction on where to put the jumper on manufacturer support pages, no?"If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts."0
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Hi there,
I just bought a Western Digital 500gig SATAII drive and installed it into a SATAI Dell PC. Adding a jumper to pins 5 + 6 seemed to work for me although it could be different for your Hitachi drives.
Useful is beautiful0 -
Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »I bought a couple of SATA II hard drives to go on to my Asus A7v600 motherboard which is actually SATA 1.0, fitted with a Via VT8237. The drives are Hitachi deskstar drives which on the sellers web site are described as
'The drive is also backward compatible for those wishing to upgrade their storage of SATA 1.0 systems.'
Seller is correct.
VT8237 cannot do the negotiation required to switch from SATA 2 to SATA 1.
Contact the disk manufacturer or see if you can source a SATA controller card.0 -
I had to buy a sata II card and they now work. I think the drives were miss advertised but what can you do it.
The drives don't have any jumpers so you can't do it by jumpering.Nothing to see here, move along.0 -
Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »I think the drives were miss advertised but what can you do it.
No, the VT8237 is the problem.0 -
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