SysChat is a free online computer support community. Ask questions, share resources, contribute knowledge and discuss technology. Join our growing community to access all features. Register Now!

SysChat » Hardware Tech Support » CD/DVD Hard Drives and Memory » Sata II 300MB/s mode problem

CD/DVD Hard Drives and Memory

Support and discuss ram, hard drives, usb drives, cd/dvd burners and drives

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 11-19-2006, 12:49 AM
Sn1xterbs's Avatar
Sn1xterbs Sn1xterbs is offline
Banned
 
About:
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Canada, Alberta
Posts: 1
Sn1xterbs is on a distinguished road

Server Database Sata II 300MB/s mode problem


I have this new Western Digital SATA II drive, its a Caviar SE16 250GB and I cannot get it to function in 300MB/s only 150MB/s even though my motherboard/chipset fully suports SATA II

Could this be because the WD drive does not have NCQ?

I have tryed enableing SSC and I have the newest BIOS for my board acording to Asus update.



Reply With Quote
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 11-19-2006, 04:26 PM
William_Wilson's Avatar
William_Wilson William_Wilson is offline
Moderator
 
About:
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 973
William_Wilson has a spectacular aura aboutWilliam_Wilson has a spectacular aura aboutWilliam_Wilson has a spectacular aura about

Default


NCQ is most likely the issue, it is not supported by many drives yet, and it [b]must[b] be supported by both the drive and mobo for it to be used. The increase in speed comes from the re-arranging of instructions to be excecuted in the fastest possible way.

Are both of your drives on the same channel? This can cause issues as only 1 drive is able to communicate with the mobo at a time, slowing down transfers and your mobo may be automatically compesating for this.

Here is a good article on Native Queue Command

Could you post the model number of your mobo?



__________________

</Dream In Code>
-William. § (marvin_gohan)
Reply With Quote
Reply





Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is on
Smilies are on
[IMG] code is on
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are on



» Ads



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54