Motherboard compatability question

[CoreZman]

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.

 

[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.

 

[CoreZman]

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.

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?