Can I run SATA 150 on new SATAII Motherboard?

[JohnnyB58]

I just bought a Gigabyte Motherboard with SATAII drive ports to replace my Asus MB with SATA 150 drives. I did not know the difference between SATA drives when I bought the board.

Can I run my old SATA 150 drives with all of my data on my new GA-EP35-DS3R-DSR motherboard?

My old MB is to unstable to retrieve my data.

 

[royalcrown]

yes, just plug it in.

 

[croc]

Short answer, yes. Your drives may need jumpers on the drives, may not. Your drive MFG's website should have details, and your MB manual may be helpful.

I'd suggest not to try the raid ports though, that's adding another layer of complexity (drivers) to the issue.

 

[royalcrown]

he should only need jumpers using a sata 2 drive on a sata 1 mobo...unless it's a freak thing.

 

[JohnnyB58]

yes, just plug it in.

Short answer, yes. Your drives may need jumpers on the drives, may not. Your drive MFG's website should have details, and your MB manual may be helpful.

I'd suggest not to try the raid ports though, that's adding another layer of complexity (drivers) to the issue.

I’m not so sure, I did connect one of them up but it did not show up on the Bios. When I tried to boot up and it hangs up right when it gets to "Verifying DMI Pool Data “ point. When I disconnect the drive I doesn’t hang.

 

[JohnnyB58]

he should only need jumpers using a sata 2 drive on a sata 1 mobo...unless it's a freak thing.

It's just the opposit. I have SATA 150 Drives to a SATA 300 motherboard.

 

[croc]

Yeah, I know. All he should have to do is, as you have already said, is plug them in and go. But I've seen weird incompatabilities before....

 

[royalcrown]

plug it in...and then clear your cmos...it may be an issue with assigning resources to the drive at the bios level and that would probably fix it.

 

[ZOldDude]

Yes.
Just plug them in.

 

[JohnnyB58]

Yes.
Just plug them in.

So, the answer is definitely YES!

I just download the manual from Gigabyte, which is a lot better than the one that came with the board. It says and I quote,

“The SATA connectors conform to SATA 3Gb/s standard and are compatible with SATA 1.5Gb/s Standard”

So I guess I have another problem. Why is it hanging and why can’t I get XP to install on my hard drive?

I'm going to have to try resetting the bios and start over.

 

[maximiza]

XP might be the problem, it is obsolete now.

 

[fhblee]

I just bought a Gigabyte Motherboard with SATAII drive ports to replace my Asus MB with SATA 150 drives. I did not know the difference between SATA drives when I bought the board.

Can I run my old SATA 150 drives with all of my data on my new GA-EP35-DS3R-DSR motherboard?

My old MB is to unstable to retrieve my data.

You may have to disable AHCI so that the older drive will work.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
fhblee

 

[JohnnyB58]

You may have to disable AHCI so that the older drive will work.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
fhblee

You are right about that, unfortunately I did not know about the AHCI
Until after I started to load XP from the CD and got the blue screen. Now I’m wondering if XP did something of left something behind in the boot area.

 

[fhblee]

Your Windows XP may have the AHCI driver installed and it BSODed when your BIOS support for AHCI was disabled. You will probably need to disconnect the old drive SATA 150 drive, enable AHCI, boot to XP, remove the driver.

Shut down and then reboot with the AHCI turned off. Then you have to install the normal hard disc controller driver from Intel. Hopefully it works this time.

Best regards,
fhblee

 

[JohnnyB58]

Your Windows XP may have the AHCI driver installed and it BSODed when your BIOS support for AHCI was disabled. You will probably need to disconnect the old drive SATA 150 drive, enable AHCI, boot to XP, remove the driver.

Shut down and then reboot with the AHCI turned off. Then you have to install the normal hard disc controller driver from Intel. Hopefully it works this time.

Best regards,
fhblee

OK! Case closed. I cleared the Bios and left the AHCI disabled. Windows is installing right now. Thanks a bunch.