Sata II cable??

[fiberoptik]

Hey Everyone.. Its been a while since I've posted, I've been under the loom of the mighty penguin, and trying to get that slippery bastard optimized.. friggin *nix. Anyway, in my sheer desperation to get my sata II drive working properly, (It would only detect as a sata I drive), I reinstalled Win XP to get the jist of things. It was then that it dawned on me, Is thier a special cable to support SATA II?? I used the cable that came with my MSI K8N Neo4 Plat SLI. Has that been the problem? The Hitachi 80GB sata II drive I purchased was oem and didn't come with any cables.

Any insight is apprecaited...

FibeOptix
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Msi K8N Neo 4 Plat Sli
2x 6800 GTs
2x 512mb PQI DDR
AMD 3800 X2 (Yummy)
2x Maxtor 133 Pata in Raid 0
1 malfunctioning Hitachi POS

 

[zoinks]

hitachi ships the drive at 1.5g sata 1. you have to use the "feature tool" to enable 3.0g sata2.
feature tool v1.98 is near bottom:
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
make bootable cd or floppy - program auto opens on boot.

here's a link discussing how to use the tool and what settings you need:
http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-283-1.htm

what to do:
1.change sata settings
- click up to 3.0gb/s and disable spread spectrum clocking
2.acoustic management is off by default but check it is offf.
3.idle is off by default but check it is off.

there ya go.

 

[fiberoptik]

zoinks thanks I actually ended up stumbling upon that last night and was able to put it in sata II mode. Didn't upgrade my speed much..