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A8N-SLI SATA II Problems

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Solema

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I am hoping someone can help me here. I just purchased two Hitachi 7K80 SATA-II drives and I cannot get the BIOS or Windows XP to recognize them as SATA-II! They come up as SATA-1, but NCQ still works. I know for a fact that these drives are SATA-II. Is there a special SATA-II cable I need to use with these drives or certain things I need to enable in the BIOS? Someone help!
 
Actually, I figured it out. The Hitachi 7K80 drive comes from the manufacturer running in SATA-I mode. I needed to use a boot tool called Hitachi Feature Tool to change the drive to SATA-II. Hitachi said they did it that way so that people wouldn't damage the drive or their system trying to use it in SATA-II on a SATA-I system. All is working well, and these things are damn fast! Windows boots in less than 15 seconds now. 😀
 
For the most part SATA 1 works just as fast as SATA 2. Go figure. Guess the manufactorers should stop releasing upgrades to the infrastructure and actually upgrading the speed of the drives themselves.
 
Yeah, for the most part sustained write and read speeds are about the same as two Raptors in RAID-0, but the burst read speeds are 425MB/s and burst write of 369MB/s, so I am thrilled with that!
 
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