Epox 9NPA+ and SATA2 drive showing as SATA1?

[dahuang1]

I have a SATA2 hitachi drive and it's reported in windows as SATA1 - is there a setting somewhere to change it to SATA2?

 

[crucibelle]

dahuang,

From what I understand, you have to download some utility off of Hitachi's site called "Feature Tool" and use that to switch it to SATA2.

 

[Jeff H]

dahuang1, educate me. Where in Windows (I'm assuming XP) is your hard drive identified as being a SATA drive?

TIA,

Jeff

 

[MadScientist]

Crucibelle is correct. You can download it here.
On my nforce4 board under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in Device Manager if I right click on NVIDIA nforce4 ADMA Controller, under Properties, Primary Channel (where I have my Hitachi HDT722525DLA380 SATA 2 drive) the Tranfer Mode is listed as Serial ATA Generation 2 - 3G. Before using Hitachi's Feature Tool it was listed as 1.5G.