On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:23 PM -0800 1/24/2010, Amanda Ward wrote:
I upgraded the 160GB SATA drive in my G5 iMac (first gen) with a
Seagate 500GB/7200 drive. After installing the new drive, I
noticed the old one had a jumper to force a 1.5GB transfer mode. I
didn't put this jumper on the new drive. Everything seems to be
working okay. Could this cause any problems down the road?
SATA is supposed to auto-negotiate the speed. There are some
crapola interfaces around that fail to do so properly (let's face
it, there is a reason some cards are cheap cheap cheap). So drive
manufacturers included a mechanism to let you nail the speed
down... Macs, using a built-in interface, should never have this
problem.
- Dan.
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I think you need to be reminded of one of the later MacBook Pros,
there was a firmware update that enables the 3.0gb/s and it caused
MAJOR issues...
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