PCI Controller Card Question

[ginky4]

I have an ABIT AV8 Third Eye motherboard that is SATA 1. I just bought a new Western Digital 1TB hard drive that is SATA 2. Would it be smarter to just buy a PCI controller card that is SATA 2 compatible or should I just set the jumper on the back of the WD hard drive so that it reverts back to 1.5GBs?

[SpywareDr]

Since it's a mere $23, I'd get a card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-008-_-Product

[ginky4]

Do you think the PCI card would be faster running in a PCI slot and not an actual SATA port on the motherboard?

[Midknyte]

I doubt it would help. PCI bus would bottleneck the drive even more than SATAI.

If anything, set the compatibility jumper on the drive to SATAI mode.

[Train]

I jumpered mine and plugged it into a sata slot, works fast enough for me.

[ginky4]

I jumpered my 1TB WD drive back to 1.5GBs but my bios still doesn't see it when it is hooked up to SATA 1 on the motherboard. If I put my 320GB WD drive in and jumper it the bios sees it just fine and the machine boots right into Windows. If I run the 1TB drive off of a PCI Controller card it works fine without any jumpers. I wonder why jumpering back to 1.5GBs doesn't work for the 1TB drive.

[Train]

BIOS I would say. Hate when that happens.

[ginky4]

Just found this link. I have the VT8237. Looks like a controller card for me. Is it still necessary to set the jumper back to 1.5? It is working with no jumper right now.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/...ejdMcms%3D

[Train]

If it works, then leave things alone is my recommendation.

Your experience is just the opposite of mine. No jumper did not work, so I used the jumper and all is good to go.