Sata II....whats needed to make it work??

[Kid8]

I just got a WD 160 Sata II hdd and i was wondering if there was anything i need to download to make it Sata II and not Sata 150. Does it just work as Sata II?

 

[DougLite]

What's it hooked up to?

 

[Kid8]

its just hooked up to my mobo w/a sata cable

 

[Aronj66]

The MB needs to be SATA2.

 

[Kid8]

the mobo is sata 2 its the asus a8n-sli premium

 

[Zardoz]

Basically the drive and the controller need to be SATA2. If so, when you hook them up it's should be running in that mode.

 

[Kid8]

ok thank you.
i read somewhere that people had to go to the manufacturer website and download som tool pack to make it sata2.

 

[Wesley1357]

you have to. i don't think winxp has the driver on default.

 

[Kid8]

ok thats what i have been hearing alot of. So i should just go to western digitals website and look for this driver?

 

[Wesley1357]

asus

 

[Wesley1357]

3

 

[Kid8]

im sorry i don't know what im sposed to download there??

 

[c1001]

so how can you tell if it is running at SATA II speed (300) instead of SATA 1 (150)? My BIOS says my HDD is SATA II.

 

[GeForceX]

Check within the Device Manager - properties. Then perhaps benchmark it?

Download this: Silicon Image 3114 SATA RAID driver V1.1.9.9 for Windows XP(WHQL)/2K/2003.

-J.

 

[Wesley1357]

you haven't install anything before have you, like the chipset inf driver, then lan driver, then video card driver, finally the ide driver! in that order.