Asus K8N motherboard and SATA HD

[Meng Cheah]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I don't know the K8N, but I certainly run SATA drives on the A8V with no
> problems so far.  Now based on what I have read, seagate has
> historically been really bad at making broken SATA firmware on their
> drives.  Personally I have used WD drives and never had a problem with
> compatibility yet.
>
> Can you set the BIOS to native SATA rather than emulating IDE?  I never
> did have much luck with the legacy emulation and it really shouldn't be
> needed anyhow.
>   
There is no option for settting the BIOS to SATA, native or otherwise, 
even with the latest BIOS (2006).
In Type, the options are:
Not Installed
Auto
CDROM
ARMD

On the hard drive, the only option is to jumper it to 150Mb/s or 
3.0Gb/s(unjumpered).

Thanks, Lennart.



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