[ale] Hardware question: BIOS not seeing my 500GB SATA for?Kubuntu install

[Sean C. McCord]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:33:28AM -0500, Tim Watts wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2009 4:04 pm, Sean C. McCord wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > a) the drive is SATAII but the controller is SATAI _and_ they have the
> > compatibility probem.  To fix this tae a look and see if there is a
> > jumper n the drive to clip to "150" or be compatibile with SATAI.
> 
> BINGO! Thanks Sean.
> 
> So I guess by setting this jumper I'm bopping the thru put down a bit? I can 
> live with that I think. This is just for personal use mainly.

You'll probably never notice.  It would be a very rare event for the
drive to push beyond 150MB/s throughput.

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Sean C. McCord
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