S-ATA problem

Hi!

After years owning Abut boards i took a leap into the unknown and
bought an Asus P5GD1 board.

The problem i have is nto so much a problem but an annoyance in that
my two S-ATA drives are only being used in mode 5 (ATA-100) instead of
the mode they are capible of, which is mode 6 (ATA-133)!

My two P-ATA drives are working happily in mode 6 so i can't for the
life of me figure out what is up with the board. I checked the Asus
site, got the new bios but still no luck.

Any advice relevant to the subject would be apprechiated!

Engelkott

"Engelkott" <nomail.RemoveThis@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> After years owning Abut boards i took a leap into the unknown and
> bought an Asus P5GD1 board.
>
> The problem i have is nto so much a problem but an annoyance in that
> my two S-ATA drives are only being used in mode 5 (ATA-100) instead of
> the mode they are capible of, which is mode 6 (ATA-133)!
>
> My two P-ATA drives are working happily in mode 6 so i can't for the
> life of me figure out what is up with the board. I checked the Asus
> site, got the new bios but still no luck.
>
> Any advice relevant to the subject would be apprechiated!
>
> Engelkott
Why worry?.
There is no practical difference between the speeds. Your drives will only
be capable of a maximum transfer of perhaps 75-80MB/sec from the media,
and even from the buffer memory, for a few uSec, most drives strain to
keep up even with the 100MB/sec rate. The faster interface makes no
measurable difference at all to the system performance...
The 'odds' are though that it is your drives. For instance, Samsung
drives, though supporting ATA133, _ship_ set to use ATA100, as the fastest
mode, because a lot of motherboards have problems with the higher rate.
Several other manufacturers do the same, and offer a 'tool' to switch the
drives up, usually with a large caveat, that you should backup your data
first.

Best Wishes