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Motherboard compatability question

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CoreZman

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I'm looking at a new hard drive, and I want to buy SATA. My motherboard is an MSI K8N Neo Platinum, which supports:

On-Board IDE/SATA
? An IDE controller on the nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices
? 4 S-ATA RAID controller and dual channel ATA 133/100/66/33 master mode EIDE controller.
? Support up to 4 SATA plus 4 ATA133 Hard drive
- RAID 0 or 1, 0+1
- RAID function work w/ATA133 + SATA H/Ds, SATA H/Ds or ATA133 H/Ds

The SATA drives I am looking at come either in a 1.5GB/s flavor or a 3.0GB/s flavor (both have 16mb/s cache). My question is will my motherboard support/use the 3GB/s flavor SATA hard drives?

edit: nm, found the answer, which is no. please delete if you want.
 
Actually the answer is yes. Samsung (and probably other manufacturers) have jumpers to be recognized as sata1 drives for compatibility with older m/b.
 
Originally posted by: orangat
Actually the answer is yes. Samsung (and probably other manufacturers) have jumpers to be recognized as sata1 drives for compatibility with older m/b.
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It sounds like you're saying a SATAII drive will be compatible with my mobo in that it will work in SATAI mode, while I was asking if it will work in SATAII mode (SATA/300). Of course, it depends on the specific model hard drive - I'm looking at a Maxtor Diamondmax10 . Did I misunderstand you?
 
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