[windows2000] Re: SATA-drives with win2k3 and win2k3 r2
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:34:55 +0200
Charles R. Buchanan <> wrote on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:03 PM:
What would I do w/o this list... Thx for the info!
> That is to make the drives backward compatible with SATA-1 systems that
> doesn't have the recent BIOS to automatically throttle the drives down
> to the lower speed. I had that problem and I had to use the jumpers on
> the 200 and 250 SATA drives. I didn't need to use the jumpers on the two
> 360gb SATA drives I just installed because the controller is a more
> recent one than the other MB I was using.
>
> I think it's a good idea to have the jumpers set from the factory
> because before I knew of the jumpers, I thought I had a DOA drive
> because the computer (BIOS) didn't even know the drive exisited, until I
> set the jumpers, so maybe the HD maker(s) was getting a LOT of calls
> and/or returns because people thought the drive was dead, as I did.
> <shrug>
>
> I tend to think it's a hardware issue.
>
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:48:13 +0200, "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> took time to say the following:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just checked out a new delivery of sata-drives I bought recently. They are
>> all jumpered to clip at a 1,5GB/s transfer rate. When jumpers removed it's
>> said to support 3GB/s transfer rate.
>>
>> Can win2k3 server support this speed at all? Or is it more a hardware
>> issue?
>>
>> I can't imagine why otherwise a harddrive would be crippled from factory,
>> ie jumpered to not allow faster transfer rates than 1,5GB/s.
>>
>> TIA.
>>
>> BW,
>>
>> Sorin
>>
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