Is SATA II supported in 6.2-stable?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:26:40PM +0000, ian j hart wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 11:06, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> > Mar  6 14:00:09 aaa kernel: ad8: 305245MB <Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAE> at
> > ata4-master SATA150 Mar  6 14:00:09 aaa kernel: ad10: 305245MB <Seagate
> > ST3320620AS 3.AAE> at ata5-master SATA150
> 
> IIRC those drives ship jumpered down to SATA150. Worth checking.

That's correct.  There's an incredibly tiny jumper on the jumper
block which limits the transfer speed to 1.5gbit/sec (SATA150).
Remove the jumper and you've got SATA300.

The official product manual for this drive:

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/Desktop/Barracuda%207200.10/100402371e.pdf

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