Not all SATA is SATA? Seems so...
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Well, just tried mating a 500Gb SATAII drive to my old AMD64's SATA controller.
The results were unexpected but comical (Japlish).
Tried the jumper trick (disables auto-negotiation on the drive and forces 150Mbp/s) and no.
Drive is spinning up (it's getting warm) and the cables work as we tested them and the drive on another SATA system.
Controller has the latest firmware as far as I can tell and is one of the old VIA SATA RAID units.
Well, at least it's proof that not all controllers are as compatible as others.
New mobo on order. Push comes to shove I'll drop a SATAII controller on it.
The results were unexpected but comical (Japlish).
Tried the jumper trick (disables auto-negotiation on the drive and forces 150Mbp/s) and no.
Drive is spinning up (it's getting warm) and the cables work as we tested them and the drive on another SATA system.
Controller has the latest firmware as far as I can tell and is one of the old VIA SATA RAID units.
Well, at least it's proof that not all controllers are as compatible as others.
New mobo on order. Push comes to shove I'll drop a SATAII controller on it.
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