XP thinks my SATA-II is SATA-I...using Tforce 550

[akijikan]

I am using a T-Force 550, the bios has options for SATA-I or Auto, but no force to SATA-II (its set to AUTO). The harddrive is Hitachi 160GB 0A31637 SATAII U300.

I'm using the lastest Nforce drivers (9.16).

In device manager I select the Primary SATA controller, right-click, select properties, select primary channel properties and it shows "Let BIOS select transfer mode" is checked. If I uncheck it, the drop-down box only lets me select SATA-I or PIO, no SATA-II.

Anyone have any thoughts.

[freeloader]

Some SATA II drives ship with jumper for SATA I/SATA II in the SATA I mode. Check your drive for this jumper, if it's on SATA I, take it off. My Western Digital drive was like that.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1400&p_created=1134597011#jumper

That's an example of my WD 320gb drive. As you can see, if the jumper is on it will resort to SATA I transfer speed.