re: IDE and SATA hdd Friday, October 19, 2007 at 3:39 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by robert zinda (105 messages posted) I just checked and found out my new 250 g HDD is SATA2. the MOBO is an older ABIT with 2 SATA plugs on it. The WD site mentions a jumper put on the SATA2 HDD to limit the transfer rate to 150KBS..is this what I have to do? On Friday, October 19, 2007 at 2:42 pm, Steve wrote: >It is possible that if your new SATA Drive is the new SATA2 standard , and your SATA >Port on the Motherboard is the older type Port. I have noticed the new drives will >sometimes have a jumper that disables the SATA2 speed to make it backward compatible >to the older ports. Western Digital has some info on their web site about it if you >have any trouble. Written in response to: re: IDE and SATA hdd (Steve: Friday, October 19, 2007 at 2:42 pm) Responses to this message: re: IDE and SATA hdd (Steve: Friday, October 19, 2007 at 3:59 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] IDE and SATA hdd (robert zinda: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 2:14 pm) re: IDE and SATA hdd (Steve: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 2:20 pm) re: IDE and SATA hdd (robert zinda: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 2:32 pm) re: IDE and SATA hdd (Steve: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 2:42 pm) re: IDE and SATA hdd (robert zinda: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 3:39 pm) re: IDE and SATA hdd (Steve: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 3:59 pm) re: IDE and SATA hdd (robert zinda: Sat, Oct 20, 2007, 9:39 am) re: IDE and SATA hdd (Steve: Sat, Oct 20, 2007, 9:48 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum