ST31500341AS and RocketRaid 1640

[mikeblas]

I have a RocketRaid 1640, and I've bought two ST31500341AS drives for it.

I've found that the controller detects the drives as ATA/133, which is puzzling because it detects all my other drives as ATA/150. I know the controller won't do ATA/300, but why won't it see these drives as ATA/150 ?

 

[Syntax Error]

I hope you mean SATA, the 1.5TB drive doesn't have IDE connectors!

ATA 133 is a parallel speed...SATA either goes at 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps...strange.

 

[mikeblas]

I mean ATA. The firmware on this card says "ATA/150" or "ATA/133". I think it's vestigal from when similar firmware was used on older cards with parallel ATA.