10

As per the title, are the two versions compatible?

2 Answers 2

12

The designers of SATA intended for backwards and forwards compatibility, however, there are some SATA 1 controllers that don't support SATA 2 drives. For this reason, some HD manufacturers added a SATA1/2 mode jumper so that the drives would work with the affected controllers.

See this section of the Wikipedia article for relevant chipset info. From that section, affected chipsets are motherboard host controllers using the VIA and SIS chipsets VT8237, VT8237R, VT6420, VT6421L, SIS760, SIS964 found on the ECS 755-A2 manufactured in 2003.

You should be ok using SATA 1 drives with SATA 2 controllers. (At least, I didn't find any contradictory information).

1
  • 1
    You're right on this. Any SATA2 controller support SATA1 device with no problem and same thing for sata1 controller with sata2 device, except for those named above. May 8, 2009 at 19:25
6

Yes it is. Sometime you may need to put a jumper on a SATA2 harddrive to make it work on SATA 1 controller but you rarely need it as the harddrive ajust himself according to what is available.

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .