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Chappers | 00:02 Thu 13th Jul 2006 | Technology
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I have a SATA2 hard drive (it was advertised as such, it doesn't have sata2 written on it) and I tried it in 3 different PC's that support sata1 for sure...the sata2 hard disk didn't even pick up on these machines.

Is it a bad disk? Are sata2 hard disks compatible with sata1 mainboards?
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yes they are ,its basically a speed difference of how much information your pc can read and how much the drive is sending, u may be able to pick up a sata 2 hard drive contoller though ,that connects to one of your pci slots, but to be honest i havent seen any
02:47 Thu 13th Jul 2006
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That's what I thought...so my SATA1 compatible mainboard should be able to pick up the SATA2 drive as long as it is working properly?
12:00 Thu 13th Jul 2006
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Yes it should. Make sure SATA support is enabled in the BIOS before you march off back to the shop!
23:46 Thu 13th Jul 2006
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Yeah it's all working fine, I've got other SATA1 drives working on it just fine but this SATA2 disk just won't pick up!

Thanks for the help guys!
00:53 Fri 14th Jul 2006

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