SATA 150Mb/s or SATA 3Gb/s

Null D3v · 07-04-2006, 02:31 AM

I hooked up a Western Digital 250Gb hard drive and installed Windows XP. No problems. Except now I have realized that I plugged the drive into the SATA 150Mb/s slot on the board and not the 3Gb/s. I have had no jumpers set. So, I tried to simply move the SATA cable, but I couldn't boot. I booted with the Windows XP CD to find that XP can't see the drive when it's plugged into the 3Gb/s slot. BUT, my onboard RAID drivers (when I hit Shift-S or F4 on startup) are able to see the drive when it's in the 3Gb/s slot. The board is a ECS PF88 Elitebus. Now, do I need to create a driver disk for XP or mess with some jumpers?

Null D3v · 07-04-2006, 02:37 AM

UPDATE:

Well, in the BIOS there are three SATA controls
SATA controller: Enabled
SATA (something): IDE --- Not RAID
SATA2 controller: Enabled

There is no control on SATA2 to set it to be recognized as IDE.

dai · 07-04-2006, 01:15 PM

if it is a wd sata 2 drive to run it at sata you have to jumper it to sata 150
if you have not put on the jumper it will be running as sata 2 300
sata1 and sata 2 slots are the same as eide 1 and eide 2,they are both running at sata 2 speed,the speed limit is done by the jumper on the back of the drive
your mbr record is set at sata 1 so when you move it to sata 2 it cannot find it
just leave it on sata1,it is running at full speed 300mb
when you set it to ide in the bios,it sets both 1 and 2 to be recognised as eide not raid
the controller just enables the slots

07-04-2006, 02:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
Null D3v Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 20 OS: Windows XP	SATA 150Mb/s or SATA 3Gb/s I hooked up a Western Digital 250Gb hard drive and installed Windows XP. No problems. Except now I have realized that I plugged the drive into the SATA 150Mb/s slot on the board and not the 3Gb/s. I have had no jumpers set. So, I tried to simply move the SATA cable, but I couldn't boot. I booted with the Windows XP CD to find that XP can't see the drive when it's plugged into the 3Gb/s slot. BUT, my onboard RAID drivers (when I hit Shift-S or F4 on startup) are able to see the drive when it's in the 3Gb/s slot. The board is a ECS PF88 Elitebus. Now, do I need to create a driver disk for XP or mess with some jumpers?

07-04-2006, 01:15 PM	#3 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,712 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	if it is a wd sata 2 drive to run it at sata you have to jumper it to sata 150 if you have not put on the jumper it will be running as sata 2 300 sata1 and sata 2 slots are the same as eide 1 and eide 2,they are both running at sata 2 speed,the speed limit is done by the jumper on the back of the drive your mbr record is set at sata 1 so when you move it to sata 2 it cannot find it just leave it on sata1,it is running at full speed 300mb when you set it to ide in the bios,it sets both 1 and 2 to be recognised as eide not raid the controller just enables the slots __________________

07-04-2006, 02:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
Null D3v Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 20 OS: Windows XP	UPDATE: Well, in the BIOS there are three SATA controls SATA controller: Enabled SATA (something): IDE --- Not RAID SATA2 controller: Enabled There is no control on SATA2 to set it to be recognized as IDE.