Does the Western Digital WD5000AAKS have jumpers

PeterT

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Hi, I am about to order 2 of the above drives. They will be installed a computer that has SATA 1 and not SATA 2.
What do I need to do to the drives when they arrive so that they will run in SATA 1?

Cheers, PeterT
 


Looks like it does have jumpers. You'll insert or remove the jumper to limit the speed. If it doesn't work when you try it, try the opposite. Such is the beauty of having only two options. :)
 
i'm trying to get the same drive working atm, just won't boot and says 'error loading operating system'

might be to do with an inactive partition but may try to see if i need to limit the speed with a jumper as i'm sata1 too.

it does say that there is no need for master/slave jumpers on sata actually on the drive.
 
I didn't have to change anything to use on SATA1. Worked out of the box, and looking at the drive now i see no indication os a SATA1/2 jumper :confused: .
 
Chris1712 said:
I didn't have to change anything to use on SATA1. Worked out of the box, and looking at the drive now i see no indication os a SATA1/2 jumper :confused: .
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Same here. I have a wd sata II drive and the drive didn't even have jumpers. It's not like the hdd is going to exceed sata one speeds.
 
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There you go buddy, sum proof!
 
sorry for sounding daft here but ive just fitted 1 of these and all is ok,now will it run at sataII or do you have to change anything,as got no jumpers with this drive cheers for any advice
 
Thank you for the further replies.That settles it then, there should be no problems for me.

PeterT
 
The drives that do not have jumpers use a APP to change speeds, you normally get with retail but would need download from manu site if oem, it will be a bootable floppy or .iso. (kinda like the Hitachi Feature Tool)
 
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