[ale] Getting SATA II configured performance

[James Sumners]

Have you checked the jumper settings on the drive?

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jeff Layton<laytonjb at att.net> wrote:
> Good afternoon sports fans,
>
> I bought a new Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H system
> board and a Phenom II X4 920 (2.8 GHz) CPU. I've installed
> CentOS 5.3 on an old IDE drive I have that servers as the boot
> drive (for /). I've connected two Seagate ST3500320AS drives
> to the board.
>
> When I run "hdparm -I" on them it reports only SATA I
> speeds:
>
> % /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep SATA
> *    SATA-I signaling speed (1.5 Gb/s)
>
> Both the board and the drives are capable of SATAII speeds but
> I can't seem to figure out why I can't get SATA II signaling. I've
> set up the SATA ports as AHCI but hdparm still doesn't see
> the drives as SATA II capable.
>
> Any thoughts? Perhaps a cable problem (not sure of the age of
> the SATA cables).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff
>
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