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I have a Samsung SATA II which I wish to fit into an older computer (motherboard can handle SATA1.5 but not SATA3.0). Googling only gave me a big pile of RTFMs, but Samsung manuals are written and translated by cubicle chimps, supplied on a piece of paper you can easily mistake for a tissue paper, with little to no useful information. Is there any way to limit its transfer rate so it looks like a SATA1.5 to the motherboard?

It should just run at the fastest speed it can without any need for you to limit it.

HereComesPete wrote:It should just run at the fastest speed it can without any need for you to limit it.

SATA is backwards and forwards compatible, all drives and all mobos will work together.

The problem is that what I DID learn from Google is that motherboards with certain chipsets (a few which came out between SATA and SATA II) will not detect drives with 3 Gbps transfer rate (which is the unlimited SATA II). Unfortunately, the mobo bears one of these chipsets and I only found instructions for limiting a Western Digital HDD, not a Samsung one. I did find a forum post about someone trying to insert a WD SATA II into the very same mobo I have and his solution was limiting. What I would like to know is if anyone knows how I limit a Samsung HDD.

Test it first, then worry.

Should be a very similar method. Got a link to this info?

If not you could try plugging it in after boot up and see if that helps, unless it's the boot drive because that wouldn't help at all.

was hardly difficult to find

WHAT. International support fail. That wasn't on the Hungarian site. CHIMPS.

I should sue them. Now all I need is a free fucking jumper. Which they obviously don't supply with their HDs. Well thanks anyway.

Baliame wrote:WHAT. International support fail. That wasn't on the Hungarian site. CHIMPS.

I should sue them. Now all I need is a free fucking jumper. Which they obviously don't supply with their HDs. Well thanks anyway.

protip: on most motherboards the clear cmos jumper does nothing in the off position.

...and even that support picture thing is wrong. You have to jump pins 5 and 6, not 3 and 4. CORPORATE CHIMPS.