Re: P4P800 SE and SATA2 drives

"Brad P" <> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> I have this board and currently have 2 320GB SATA drives on a RAID 1
array.
> I just ordered 2 new 1TB drives that are SATA2 to make a larger array. I
did
> read that SATA2 is backwards compatible with SATA boards. HAs anyone used
> SATA2 drives with the P4P800 SE boards?
>
> I bought the SATA2 drives because they were cheaper than their SATA
> brothers, oddly enough.
>
> Thanks
>
>

why would u buy drives if u dont know the compatibility? may be a jumper
for 150 mb/s some do some dont

pokeyman

"Brad P" <> wrote in message news:gm4vi9$kuo$...
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> "pokey man" <james7273(remove)@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Brad P" <> wrote in message
> > news:gm4ctj$gph$...
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> I have this board and currently have 2 320GB SATA drives on a RAID 1
> > array.
> >> I just ordered 2 new 1TB drives that are SATA2 to make a larger array. I
> > did
> >> read that SATA2 is backwards compatible with SATA boards. HAs anyone used
> >> SATA2 drives with the P4P800 SE boards?
> >>
> >> I bought the SATA2 drives because they were cheaper than their SATA
> >> brothers, oddly enough.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >
> > why would u buy drives if u dont know the compatibility? may be a jumper
> > for 150 mb/s some do some dont
> >
> > pokeyman
> >
> >
> I had read prior buying it was backwards compatible. So I ordered them. Then
> I asked myself after about size limitations but could not find any for that
> board but came across issues in my searches. So I may have been abit hasty,
> but what can you do.

The SATA firmware built into other motherboards from the same era
(e.g. Abit's IC7-G, which uses a Silicon Image 3112 for its RAID)
have a 500GB limitation. I have no idea if Asus' P4P800 series has
the same limit.

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> "Brad P" <> wrote in message
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> >
> > "pokey man" <james7273(remove)@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> > newsfjhl.15756$...
> > >
> > > "Brad P" <> wrote in message
> > > news:gm4ctj$gph$...
> > >> Hello
> > >>
> > >> I have this board and currently have 2 320GB SATA drives on a RAID 1
> > > array.
> > >> I just ordered 2 new 1TB drives that are SATA2 to make a larger
array. I
> > > did
> > >> read that SATA2 is backwards compatible with SATA boards. HAs anyone
used
> > >> SATA2 drives with the P4P800 SE boards?
> > >>
> > >> I bought the SATA2 drives because they were cheaper than their SATA
> > >> brothers, oddly enough.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > why would u buy drives if u dont know the compatibility? may be a
jumper
> > > for 150 mb/s some do some dont
> > >
> > > pokeyman
> > >
> > >
> > I had read prior buying it was backwards compatible. So I ordered them.
Then
> > I asked myself after about size limitations but could not find any for
that
> > board but came across issues in my searches. So I may have been abit
hasty,
> > but what can you do.
>
> The SATA firmware built into other motherboards from the same era
> (e.g. Abit's IC7-G, which uses a Silicon Image 3112 for its RAID)
> have a 500GB limitation. I have no idea if Asus' P4P800 series has
> the same limit.
>
>
then partition it into 2 500 drives

always a work around