[casperboy77]

I have a 500gb WD SATA internal hard drive. I installed it into my system which has SATA connectors on the motherboard. However the motherboard doesn't recognize the drive. The motherboard has a VIA VT8237 South Bridge. I purchased an Adaptec 1205SA from BestBuy and the drive works great. The issue is that some things in Vista arn't working properly and according to a tech support guy at Microsoft it is due to the adaptec card not being supported by Windows Vista. My computer is working and I get around some of the problems. I just learned that Western Digital addressed the issue with the VT8237 and said just put a jumper on pins 5 and 6 and the drive will work. Putting a pin on 5 and 6 will lock the drive in 150mbs mode. I am thinking that 150mbs is going to be too slow. Someone told me that even though I have the Adaptec card installed which says 1.5gbs that the PCI slot cannot go that fast. So my question is should I leave it the way it is (hooked up to the Adaptec PCI card) or hook it to the motherboard and adjust the jumper setting? Thanks.

-Jim

[Elvandil]

Try it on the board. Even at 150, it will be about twice as fast as an IDE and you may not even notice the difference.

[casperboy77]

Elvandil,

Thanks for your suggestion. It is working perfectly! I can now take out the Adaptec 1205SA card. The best part is that the on board SATA ports are fully supported by Vista, unlike the add-on PCI Adaptec 1205SA card. Thanks again!

[Elvandil]

Good work. I think you picked the best solution, and the one that will lead to the fewest future problems.

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