[Gllug] SATA - new drives and old BIOSes not compatible?

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 12:45:43PM +0000, - Tethys wrote:
> On 1/17/07, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> 
> >I bought a new WD SATA drive from a reputable supplier, but
> >unfortunately it doesn't seem to be detected by my two year old
> >computer with onboard SATA (Via VT8237).
> >
> >Are there known problems with new drives and old motherboards, as in
> >the IDE days?  I find it hard to believe that this drive would be DOA.
> 
> Yes. There should be a jumper on the drive to drop it down to 1.5Gb/s.

Right, found it.  Thanks.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat UK Limited
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