[windows2000] Re: SATA-drives with win2k3 and win2k3 r2
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:33:54 +0200
Charles R. Buchanan <> wrote on Friday, October 20, 2006 6:36 AM:
You and me both!
On the mobo would be cheaper for manufacturer. One the hd more practical for
end-user. Take your pick. 8-)
> I have asked that question a few times myself, even if I didn't ask a
> question, I have learned a lot. :-) Oh, on a side note, I don't know if
> WD has changed the technology in their newer drives, but there
> werecomplaints
> about having to set jumpers and so forth, while other hard drive maker(s)
> incorporated the auto throttle feature in the hard drive circuitry (BIOS)
> itself, which I guess could be debated on where this feature should be
> best installed. (Hard drive vs Motherboard)
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:34:55 +0200, "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> took time to say the following:
>
>> 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.
>
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