I recently got a Samsung Spinpoint M9T ST1500LM006 1.5tb HDD. It is a SATA III (6gb/s) drive that is downward compatible with SATA II (3gb/s) and SATA I (1.5gb/s), but I want to force it to run in SATA I mode.
I am using this drive with my Playstation 3. The PS3 uses a SATA I interface, but it works with newer drives by automatically limiting the speed at startup. Problem is, the older PS3 models have issues with SATA detection, and sometimes my console will fail to boot properly. I got around this issue with my old 500gb Seagate Momentus, it was a SATA II drive that had jumper settings that let me force it to run in SATA I. It was good, but I wanted to upgrade my PS3’s storage.
The ST1500LM006 has no jumper settings (the jumper pins are for factory use only according to the M9T manual). Samsung’s old diagnostic tools like ESTOOL and HUTIL do not work for the drive since it’s relatively new, they don’t even recognize it as a Samsung model.
It’s incredibly frustrating because it has to be possible to limit its speed manually, but right now it’s seemingly impossible because Samsung’s support is terrible and there are no answers anywhere on the internet. Can someone please help me with this before my head explodes?
I am using this drive with my Playstation 3. The PS3 uses a SATA I interface, but it works with newer drives by automatically limiting the speed at startup. Problem is, the older PS3 models have issues with SATA detection, and sometimes my console will fail to boot properly. I got around this issue with my old 500gb Seagate Momentus, it was a SATA II drive that had jumper settings that let me force it to run in SATA I. It was good, but I wanted to upgrade my PS3’s storage.
The ST1500LM006 has no jumper settings (the jumper pins are for factory use only according to the M9T manual). Samsung’s old diagnostic tools like ESTOOL and HUTIL do not work for the drive since it’s relatively new, they don’t even recognize it as a Samsung model.
It’s incredibly frustrating because it has to be possible to limit its speed manually, but right now it’s seemingly impossible because Samsung’s support is terrible and there are no answers anywhere on the internet. Can someone please help me with this before my head explodes?
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