Hi, I've done several dual boot laptops and PC's with Nvidia chipsets and Intel I've had no trouble with sata 3G drives.
Doug -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Ludwick Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 3:15 AM To: [email protected]; Fort Wayne Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [fwlug] ubuntu, W-D drives It seems you're talking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA "According to the hard drive manufacturer Maxtor, motherboard host controllers using the VIA and SIS chipsets VT8237, VT8237R, VT6420, VT6421L, SIS760, SIS964 found on the ECS 755-A2 manufactured in 2003, do not support SATA 3 Gbit/s drives. To address interoperability problems, the largest hard drive manufacturer, Seagate/Maxtor/Western Digital, has added a user-accessible jumper-switch known as the Force 150, to switch between 150 MB/s and 300 MB/s operation.[5] Users with a SATA 1.5 Gbit/s motherboard with one of the listed chipsets should either buy an ordinary SATA 1.5 Gbit/s hard disk, buy a SATA 3 Gbit/s hard disk with the user-accessible jumper, or buy a PCI or PCI-E card to add full SATA 3 Gbit/s capability and compatibility. Western Digital uses a jumper setting called "OPT1 Enabled" to force 150 MB/s data transfer speed. OPT1 is used by putting the jumper on pins 5 & 6.[18]" It seems to me that if a WD drive isn't working at 300MB/s, then a Seagate drive probably isn't going to work either. It's most likely that you're hardware or drivers aren't working or enabling SATA300. So I don't know right off hand which drivers for which chipsets or SATA controllers work, but if I were going to spend time researching, that's where I would go. --R On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 21:00 -0500, John McKelvey wrote: > Jon, > > Not right at the moment. My information came directly from the WD > sopport people. Also, when I googled on "wd sata 300 linux" or > related things I saw many comments along the same line.. even peoples' > inability to get some linux OS's to recognize an SATA drive unless > they jumpered 5-6. I do hope that there is sow way to do this without > losing speed. > > What about Seagate 10K Sata II drives? I need to check that as an > alternative. > > Many thanks! > > John > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Jonathan Bartels > <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you link to info on the problem? > > Its a SATA disk, it shouldn't matter what OS it is. > > John McKelvey wrote: > > Will the latest Ubuntu help get around the drop from > 300 to 150 for WD SATA II drives? > > Thancks! > > John McK > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > > > -- > --- > Jon Bartels > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
