hard drive problem sata i and ii

[Chris1.4RT]

Will a sata ii hard drive (3gbps) work on a sata i board (1.5gbps)?

Having a bit of trouble with an install. My mate says to use the jumper on the sata ii hard drive but there isn't one.

Cheers.

 

[Rasclart]

Yeah you can. Most SATA II drives have a tiny jumper on there. I thought by default they ran in SATA 1 mode until you removed the jumper. Most hard drives we get in are like this

 

[Michael172]

^^ yeah back of the hard drive there should be a load of pins which limit it to 1.5gbps when a jumper is placed over 2 of them - rtfm seeing as you dont actually have any pins.

Check your bios too, see if you can change the speed.

So -

RTFM of your motherboard
RTFM of your hard drive

and check your bios, try resetting it while your at it as a last resort.

 

[Chris1.4RT]

Cheers.

Having to rma the motherboard as the intended hard drive is sata ii with no jumper.

Even a mates sata i drive doesn't work.

Why I volunteer to build pcs I know not.