Hi Folks,

I have a bit of an issue and I'm not sure how to resolve it (if it indeed is resolvable). I have two ST31000528AS ST drives (one SATA and one e-sata) and both of them are registered as SATA-I 1.5Gb/s in the BIOS of my Mobo. The Mobo is a Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 v2.0. One of these drives is my system drive for Windows 8.

I have also a ST3250820AS 250Gb drive and this is registering as SATA-II 3.0Gb/s so I know the Mobo is capable. I have checked the "hobble" jumper on the drives and this is not present so I know that's not the issue. The Mobo manual makes no mention of not being able autonegociate (but then it makes no mention of being able to either).

I am a bit annoyed about this as I got the drives because they were meant to be SATA-II but I cannot make them operate at the higher mode. I have done some google-ing and it seems a gew people have had this issue with this specific drive but no resolution that I could ascertain.

Can anyone shed any light?

thanks
Paul