How to tell if SATA-I or SATA-II settings?

[Frodo]

I've installed a Seagate 7200.9 300GB SATA-II on my Asus motherboard with
the nForce 4 ultra chipset.
I've heard that some SATA-II drives come preset to run at SATA-I setting.
How do I tell if the drive/controller is running at SATA-II or SATA-I
setting?

 

[Arno Wagner]

I've installed a Seagate 7200.9 300GB SATA-II on my Asus motherboard with
the nForce 4 ultra chipset.
I've heard that some SATA-II drives come preset to run at SATA-I setting.
How do I tell if the drive/controller is running at SATA-II or SATA-I
setting?

For Samsungs there is a jumper on the drive, which is documented
on the top label. I expect other manufacturers do the same.
Samsung ships them set to SATA II. This causes problems at
least with my nForce chipset, so I had to set it to SATA I.
Not an issue speed-wise.

Arno

 

[Garrot]

For Samsungs there is a jumper on the drive, which is documented
on the top label. I expect other manufacturers do the same.
Samsung ships them set to SATA II. This causes problems at
least with my nForce chipset, so I had to set it to SATA I.
Not an issue speed-wise.

Arno

What is the issue it causes on Nforce? I just installed that Samsung
SataII I asked about in here on my Asrock Dual939 Uli chipset mb and it
works fine.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Arno Wagner wrote:

What is the issue it causes on Nforce? I just installed that Samsung
SataII I asked about in here on my Asrock Dual939 Uli chipset mb and it
works fine.

Then you need not be concerned.

I observed a very slow drive detection by the BIOS (a minute or more)
and then again by Linux, were I got a message along the lines
"drive yyyyyy is slow to respond, please be patient". In the end it
was not successfully detected and got disabled by the kernel. Since
the kernel has its own driver for the chipset and does not use
the BIOS, this really is an issue with the chipset.

After setting the jumper to limit it to SATA-I, it now works
without problem. This is on an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium.

Arno

 

[Garrot]

Then you need not be concerned.

I observed a very slow drive detection by the BIOS (a minute or more)
and then again by Linux, were I got a message along the lines
"drive yyyyyy is slow to respond, please be patient". In the end it
was not successfully detected and got disabled by the kernel. Since
the kernel has its own driver for the chipset and does not use
the BIOS, this really is an issue with the chipset.

After setting the jumper to limit it to SATA-I, it now works
without problem. This is on an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium.

Arno

OK, good to keep in mind if I change mb's and get the same issue, thx.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Then you need not be concerned.

I observed a very slow drive detection by the BIOS (a minute or more)
and then again by Linux, were I got a message along the lines
"drive yyyyyy is slow to respond, please be patient". In the end it
was not successfully detected and got disabled by the kernel.

Since the kernel has its own driver for the chipset and does not use
the BIOS, this really is an issue with the chipset.

Yup, obviously can't be the driver.