On 07/01/13 17:09, Barry Samuels wrote:
The disc is a Seagate Barracuda 7200 - 1TB. I don't know what version of SATA that might be. The mainboard manual saya the SATA interface is 3 GB/s and, again, I don't know which version of SATA that might be. The BIOS does recognise the disc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA says 3 GB/s is SATA 2
As for the disk, I'd guess it's SATA 2 or above. There seem to be various versions of Barracuda 7200 so I can't say for sure.
Actually, thinking about it, SATA versions are supposed to be backwards compatible, but I'd expect you'd be best to get a SATA 2 card (or above).
When I had my problem, I had a new disk with running SATA 2, and a SATA 1 controller on the motherboard that wouldn't talk to it for some reason. There was a utility from the disk drive manufacturer to switch the disk into SATA 1 mode, but without a working SATA 2 controller to talk to the disk, I couldn't run it. I then brought a SATA 2 card, and so didn't need to run the utility any more, because I could access the disks directly via the card.
HTH Steve
When I had a problem, it was a combination of a SATA 2 disk with a bigger capacity than the MOBO Bios could support, and MOBO running SATA 1 with the disk on SATA 2older SATA version. I think you should be OK if you get a Card that supports SATA 2 or above. In theory the SATA standards are backwards compatible.
HTH Steve