SATA Raptor identity issues

[XerithsLover]

So i recently bought an Asus A8N SLI Delux. Bragging the new nVidia nForce4SLI i bought a raptor to take advantage of the new SATAII spec. I plugged the drive in, everything worked fine, installed WindowzXP-Pro, and everything was great. On next reboot i noticed that the drive was working at "ATA133". I know that this is a DMA transfer mode, one associated with PATA drives. I have made sure its plugged into the SATA slots that are managed by the nForce4, and went though the bios, making sure SATA and SATAII DMA modes are on. But for some reason the drive keeps operating at ATA133. I speculate this may be because it (bios) thinks it is an IDE drive. One thing that i did notice was, when i installed the nForce4 IDE drivers my windows would hang, and i would have to restore to last good setting. Are the nVidia IDE drivers necessary for the drive to operate at SATAII (300 instead of 133)? Why is my windows dieing every time i install nVidia drivers on an nVidia chipset? I want to use SATAII as well as TCQ (once all the TCQ bugs are worked out)! Do i need to flash firmware on my raptor? Do i need to activate some setting? What do i do? I'm out of ideas!!! ANY HELP APRECIATED!!!!!

Stein H.

 

[Arcanedeath]

The Raptor is a PATA drive w/ a bridge chip to make it SATA, it's not going to make a performance difference if it's runing at ATA133 speeds and unless you decide to turn your desktop into a server you are never going to want to enable NCQ / TCQ as it hurts desktop performance. In short don't worry about it. Hope this helps....

 

[XerithsLover]

Why than does the drive say that it suports SATAII? Isint that false advertisement? So than its ok that my motherboard says ATA133? How would a server go about makeing the transfer rate on this drive higher? Also any word on my motherboard problem? Why does my computer crash when i install the IDE drivers? Sorry for seeming the noob... i thought i knew jack, but aparently i dont even know where he lives... :S

 

[stevty2889]

Raptors are not SATAII drives, where did it say that? And they won't even fully use ata100 let alone 133 or sata150.

 

[TheStu]

Not to hijack but you appear to know whats up.... so are there any true SATA drives that run at ATA 150? I'm going to be getting a 160 GB Samsung SATA drive this weak and I just want to make sure the additonal $10 or so is worth it... other than RAID of course...

As to the OPs question about the Mobo... you might no want to install the NVidia IDe drivers... they are poo. To the best of my knowledge they still aren't actually ready (although they say they are) now this info might be outdated and only pertain to say Nforce2 systems... but last i heard they were bad.