Question about the FAQ/Sata-II

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8. How can I tell if my SATA-II 3.0Gbp/s drive is running at its intended 3.0Gbp/s, I have full support for it?

- If you have an nForce 4 board with the nF4 SATA drivers installed, the easy way is to look in Device Manager. Look at the properties of the SATA controllers under IDE ATA/ATAPI controller and there is a tab in there which displays either SATA Generation 1-1.5G for SATA1 and SATA Generation 2-2.5 (iirc) for SATA-II. Otherwise, please download HDTach. Perform a quick test on the relevant drive and look at the burst speed. SATA1 will max out before 150MB/s but SATA-II will surpass this up to 300MB/s.

I've got a 150gb Raptor and my mobo is a DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D. The drive is connected to the "Sata 1" socket/port and I've got the latest NF4 drivers installed from the Nvidia site yet my drive shows this in device manager -

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Is there something I'm doing wrong? I've looked in the Bios but can't see anything in the way of "Sata-II".
 
Makes no difference Griff - as I'm sure I mentioned somewhere, no drive can saturate the 150MB/s bandwidth of SATA yet (sustained), let alone SATA-II - only bursts of data will exceed 150MB/s but really this is negligible.
 
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I'd done some burst tests and they were just below the Sata threshold but thinking it was a Sata-II drive I wanted to enable it anyway lol

God knows what made me think it was Sata-II in the first place.
 
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