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[Aryeh M. Friedman]

> 1) Have you verified that the SATA150-limiting jumper on your Seagate
>    drive has been removed?  SATA300 drives from Seagate come from the
>    factory with that jumper connected, limiting the drive to SATA150.
>   

Yes it does have a jumper but removing it doesn't change what the driver
reports.

> 2) Do you happen to be using a PATA-to-SATA adapter on the DVD drive?
>
> 3) If No to #2, are you sure that the ICH9 does SATA300 with ATAPI
>    devices?  Does the mainboard BIOS even support it for ATAPI?
>   

It is an OEM drive so no way of knowing what it's real specs are but the
packaging/manual says SATA300... I can not find any references in the
manual or the intel specs that say anything about max atapi speed.


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