Strange Intel Mobo Behavior

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At 02:08 PM 6/3/2007, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>3) Both the MOBO and drive are SATA-300 rated, but 6.2 insists that
>    the drive is running at SATA-150.  I have verified that the drive
>    has no jumper forcing it into this mode.

Don't know about the other issues, but I have a Dell with similar 
Intel components, and it did the same SATA thing when I put a new 
drive in it yesterday:

atapci1: <Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller> port 
0xfe00-0xfe07,0xfe10-0xfe13,0xfe20-0xfe27,0xfe30-0xfe33,0xfea0-0xfeaf 
irq 20 at device 31.2 on pci0
ad4: 76293MB <Maxtor 6L080M0 BACE1G10> at ata2-master SATA150
ad6: 305245MB <Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAK> at ata3-master SATA150

The ad6 drive is supposed to do SATA-300, but realistically, other 
bottlenecks dictate it's not going to get anywhere near the '150 
speed, so I'm not terribly worried about it.  cp'ing a 4GB file to 
/dev/null yielded 57MB/sec.

   -RW