Can a sata work on a sata II port

piex5piex5
edited August 2006 in Hardware
It’s a simple question but I can’t find an answer any where, looking at a new motherboard that comes with sata II ports but I have a sata I hdd.

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  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    No problem! It is all backwards compatabile. :)
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited August 2006
    There should be a jumper on the drive.
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    GrayFox wrote:
    There should be a jumper on the drive.

    There are jumpers on SATA drives?
  • piex5piex5
    edited August 2006
    Mt_Goat wrote:
    No problem! It is all backwards compatabile. :)
    Thanks that is what I thought but just wanted some reassurance
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited August 2006
    Cyclonite wrote:
    There are jumpers on SATA drives?
    Well on the WD1600JS there is.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited August 2006
    There are jumpers on my 1600JBs from 2003 although I have no clue what they do.
  • MrBondMrBond Member
    edited August 2006
    My pair of WD2500KS's have jumpers, but I don't use them. They are natively SATA-II, my adapter card is SATA-I, and they work fine together.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    I have a SATA drive, no jumpers, my granddad just bought a 320gig SATAII Baracudda, and it has jumpers, and what it is too do is to force it to run SATA 150. but there are no jumpers to set slave/master as there can be no more than one drive per cable.
  • MrBondMrBond Member
    edited August 2006
    Which makes sense. I have yet to see a two-connector SATA cable. ;)
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    Because Serial ATA is just that, a Serial interface, not paralell.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited August 2006
    I did a bit of studying and found that the jumpers on my JB drive enable (or disable) PM2 which is advanced power management and enable 150MB/s transfer rate.

    What's odd is that my 1600JB's came with the PM2 enabled (according to the documentation, not standard) and the 150MB/s disabled which is standard. Go figure.
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