On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 05:06:56AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > > 1) Have you verified that the SATA150-limiting jumper on your Seagate > > drive has been removed? SATA300 drives from Seagate come from the > > factory with that jumper connected, limiting the drive to SATA150. > > > > Yes it does have a jumper but removing it doesn't change what the driver > reports. Leave the jumper *off*, otherwise it'll just waste people's time. The drive *will not* run in nor claim to support SATA300 with that jumper enabled. So please leave it off. :-) > > 2) Do you happen to be using a PATA-to-SATA adapter on the DVD drive? > > > > 3) If No to #2, are you sure that the ICH9 does SATA300 with ATAPI > > devices? Does the mainboard BIOS even support it for ATAPI? > > It is an OEM drive so no way of knowing what it's real specs are but the > packaging/manual says SATA300... I can not find any references in the > manual or the intel specs that say anything about max atapi speed. Can you try booting into Linux and see if it reports SATA300, or Windows and get a utility ASTRA32 and see if it reports the same? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |Received on Tue Nov 06 2007 - 09:35:30 UTC
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