Seagate 7200.10 Question

kmistry · 12 Nov 2006 at 10:41

Hi there I have a Seagate 7200.10 250Gb along with spec (see my sig). All is running well and I have no complaints although I ran HDtach yesterday (until then I didn't actually know this program existed

). Now all seems fine except for the burst time. Now I'm sure the DS3 mobo is SATAII and this HDD seems to be running @ SATA1 (am I correct?) If so how can I make it run at SATA-II? What am I doing wrong? The HDD is set up as Master 0 and the optical drive is Master 4 seeing as its IDE. Now I know "if it ain't broke dont try to fix it" but I was just curious......

Thanks in advance

Kiz

EDIT here is a picture of HDtach just in case.....

eternity · 12 Nov 2006 at 10:46

I believe there is a jumper on the drive which you can change from SATA1 TO SATA2. Think the SATA1 is its default setting.

kmistry · 12 Nov 2006 at 10:48

Aha, Ta Mate I will open it up and have a look see then thanks

kmistry · 12 Nov 2006 at 11:11

Thanks for that dude removed the jumper and its a-ok

Where the hell do I leave the little jumper now

It seems that in my haste I don't look at these things

Kiz

eternity · 12 Nov 2006 at 11:27

No problem, I did the exact same thing!

Borden · 12 Nov 2006 at 20:39

Just to help a little more, i left the jumper half-on the jumper pins so that it was only on one pin and then the other side was in a little recess in the drive. Saves me misplacing it

El Jimben · 12 Nov 2006 at 20:39

kmistry said:
Thanks for that dude removed the jumper and its a-ok Where the hell do I leave the little jumper now It seems that in my haste I don't look at these things

Kiz

I've kept it but it's bound to go missing considering how tiny it is.

Cyber-Mav · 13 Nov 2006 at 17:01

mark1 said:
Just to help a little more, i left the jumper half-on the jumper pins so that it was only on one pin and then the other side was in a little recess in the drive. Saves me misplacing it

thats what i normally do. its completly safe to do so.

Torch [P4] · 13 Nov 2006 at 23:10

ah nice one dudes, just got one of these drives in my new system (not setup yet)
id be very confused by the lack of performance otherwise

yeah quite easy to put the jumper back onto the one pin vertically