Dell studio 15 Sata2 not Working

I have replaced my old drive wdc2500bevs with seagate st9250421as and can not have it work it in sata2 mode.There is no jumper on the back of the drive.Matrix storage manager shows my hd sata1 and even i try many things re-installing vista and reinstalling driver still same.Any recomendation would really help.Thanks in advanced for any replies.

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you really should not worry about this.
No mechanical laptop harddrive can max out the SATA 1 interface, which is 150mb/sec
Your seagate drive can not come close to the maximum speed of teh sata 1 interface.
Thus even if your harddrive was being recognized as running sata 2 (sata 300), the drive would run exactly the same speed.

K-TRON

 

Thx alot for your reply but why isnt showing up as sata2? Does my mobo supports sata2 ?i may have defective unit thats what i want to know.Also my burst rate is very low.Is there a way to fix this issue.

 

burst rate really means nothing.
Can you post a screenshot of the performance of the drive. Preferably hdtune or hdtach.

Your motherboard may only be able to run sata 1 drives, but the only way of knowing is if you upload an image of the "info" tab in hdtune.
It will tell you the interface speed your motherboard supports and the interface speed your drive is currently running in.

K-TRON

 

A lot of laptops still only run sata 1.

 

Which notebook ? (CPU ?)

 

This is my hdtune results

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This is info page
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t8100

 

Your HD Tune results are good (normal). You have AHCI enabled, so naturally INFO is screwed up.
T8100, so your notebook would at least have the ICH8 controller, which does support SATA-II. You can check out PC Wizard 2008, and see what it says about your HDD. It could be that the motherboard, or BIOS is capped to SATA-I. As said, SATA-II is not going to make a difference in performance, and may increase power consumption.

 

Sorry for late response This is what pc wizard shows



General Information :
Disk Controller : Intel Corporation Mobile SATA AHCI Controller

Drive Controller Features :
Mode : SATA
AHCI : Yes
IDE Legacy : Yes
NCQ : Yes
Port Multiplier : No
IO Ports : 3 available on 3
Version : 1.10

Port #0 : ATA Device detected - (Generation 1)
Port #1 : ATAPI Device detected - (Generation 1)
Port #2 : No Device


Disk info


General Information :
SMART : Version 1.1

Informations Hard Disk ST9250421AS :
Model : ST9250421AS
Serial Number : 5TH01LNH
Revision (Firmware) : SD13
Family : Seagate Momentus 7200.3
Serial ATA : Yes
Serial ATA version : 2.0 - (SATA-300)
Support : ATA8-ACS
Size : 250 GB
Cache : 16 384 KB
ECC Size : 4
Multiple Sector : 16
IORDY : Yes
LBA Mode : Yes
DMA Mode : Yes
NCQ Mode : Yes
SCT Mode : Yes
DCO Mode : Yes
NV Cache : No
TCQ Mode : No
CFA Power Mode : No
SETMAX : Yes - Disabled
Multiword DMA Mode : 2
PIO Mode : PIO 4
UDMA Mode max. : 6 (ATA-133)
UDMA Mode Enabled : 5 (ATA-100)
SMART : Yes - Enabled
SMART Self-Test : Yes
AAM : No
Write Cache : Yes
Streaming Mode : No
Power Management : Yes
APM Mode : Yes - Enabled
APM Level : 32896
PUIS Mode : No
Security Mode : No
Trusted Computing : No
48-bit Address : Yes
Cylinders : 484521
Heads : 16
Sectors per Track : 63

SMART Information Disk ST9250421AS :
Health : 90% (estimated)
Performance : 81% (estimated)
Failure Prediction Supported : No
Threshold Exceeding : No

Raw Read Error Rate (01) : E0426 (Threshold : 006 - Worst : 100 - Max : 117)
Spin Up Time (03) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 097 - Max : 098)
Start/Stop Count (04) : 00095 (Threshold : 020 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Reallocated Sector Count (05) : 00000 (Threshold : 036 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Seek Error Rate (07) : 60FE5 (Threshold : 030 - Worst : 060 - Max : 068)
Power On Hours Count (09) : 0008C (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Spin Retry Count (0A) : 00003 (Threshold : 097 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Power Cycle Count (0C) : 0007E (Threshold : 020 - Worst : 037 - Max : 100)
(B8) : 00000 (Threshold : 099 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
(BB) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
(BC) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
(BD) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
(BE) : 70023 (Threshold : 045 - Worst : 056 - Max : 065)
(BF) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Power-Off Retract Count (C0) : 0002F (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Load/Unload Cycle Count (C1) : 00D3A (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 099 - Max : 099)
Temperature (C2) : 00023 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 044 - Max : 035)
Hardware ECC Recovered (C3) : E0426 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 050 - Max : 051)
Current Pending Sector Count (C5) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Cou... 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)
Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate (C7) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 200 - Max : 200)
(FE) : 00000 (Threshold : 000 - Worst : 100 - Max : 100)

Partitions :
Hard Disk #1 : Partition #1 (73 GB)
Hard Disk #1 : Partition #2 (24 GB)
Hard Disk #1 : Partition #3 (135 GB)

Monitoring Information :
ST9250421AS : 35 °C

 

A.T. PC Wizard, its not in native SATA mode. Dunno why, but it is not going to limit performance in anyway.

 

Chipset info also

General Information :
NorthBridge : Intel GM965
SouthBridge : 82801HEM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller

NorthBridge Information :
Architecture : Direct Media Interface (DMI)
Manufacturer : Intel (Dell Computer Corp)
Codename : Crestline
Revision : C0
Bus Speed : 199.5 MHz
FSB Frequency : 798.1 MHz (QDR)

Memory Information :
Type : DDR2-SDRAM PC2-5300
Frequency : 332.5 MHz
DRAM/FSB Ratio : 5/3
Supported Channels : Dual (128-bit)
Activated Channels : Dual
ECC Diagnostic : Hayir
CAS Latency (tCL) : 5 clocks
RAS to CAS (tRCD) : 5 clocks
RAS Precharge (tRP) : 5 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) : 15 clocks
Shared Memory (video) : Yes

PCI-Express Information :
Number of ports : 5 - (x16, x1, x1, x1, x1)

Video Information :
Integrated Controller : No
Enabled : No

Functionality :
SATA AHCI Enabled : Yes
RAID 0/1/10 Enabled : No
RAID 5 Enabled : No
PCI Express x1 Enabled : Yes
Intel AMT : Yes
Intel QST : Yes
SPI Interface : Yes

Device Capabilities (PCI) :
I/O Access : No
Memory Access : Yes
Bus Master Capable : Yes
Special Cycle Recognition : No
Memory Write & Invalidate : No
VGA Palette Snoop : No
Parity Error Response : No
Cycle Wait : No
System Error Line : No
Fast Back-to-Back : No
Detects Parity Errors : No
User Defined Format : No
PCI 66Mhz Bus Support : No
New Capability List : Yes
PCI Support : Vendor-Dependant

 

Oh yeah. That's fine. Honestly don't bother about SATA 1/2, IDE etc

Changing these modes won't affect performance in anyway. Your drive is already at its peak.

 

Thanks alot for your help I dont really care if my performance affected or not But i was just wondering why my infos screwed up .Anyway again thanks for your kindly help