I read the SATA drive thread above but just to confirm

[mattgaunt]

I have an old MOBO (Giga-byte GA-K8NSNXP)

It does have SATA ports on it

Will it take SATA 2 hard drives??

Just i read on some reviews pins had to set to change a SATA 2 drive to SATA 1.

But is this the case for all drives?? or just some SATA drives??

Also can you dual boot from a SATA / SATA 2 drive??
Cos I've tried before and it didnt work

Any help would be great cos im very confused about SATA drives

Matt

 

[rpstewart]

I have an old MOBO (Giga-byte GA-K8NSNXP)

It does have SATA ports on it

Will it take SATA 2 hard drives??

Yes. Remember however that "SATA2" isn't a standard, it's jsut a marketing name for SATA drives which can run using the 300Mb/s interface rather than the original 150Mb/s one.

Just i read on some reviews pins had to set to change a SATA 2 drive to SATA 1.

Some older SATA controllers are unable to auto-negotiate the interface speed with the drive and hence the drives had to be forced to run at 150Mb/s. A lot of manufacturers use jumper blocks for this although Hitachi use a firmware based method which needs set using their Drive Feature Tool software.

But is this the case for all drives?? or just some SATA drives??

It's more down to the board than the drive but some drives will come defaulting to 150Mb/s operation while some default to 300Mb/s. On the other hand there is no performance difference between the two interface speeds, the drives cannot saturate the 150Mb/s interface yet.

Also can you dual boot from a SATA / SATA 2 drive??
Cos I've tried before and it didnt work

Yeah, no problems with doing that.

 

[mattgaunt]

cheers for the help