SATA II compatible with SATA I?
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I got a VIA Epia SP 13000 motherboard. I've used an IDE 2.5"HD and IDE optical drive previously.
Today I bought a Kingston 8GH Compact Flash card and an Best Connectivity SATA II to Compact Flash adapter.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the Epia card supports SATA, not SATA II.
The problem is that when I plug in the compact flash SATA drive the boot screen just end up staying at the detecting IDE drives screen. I have an Xubuntu USB stick plugged in which I want to boot from to install Xubuntu to the flash card.
If I only connect the USB stick it boots the live Xubuntu version. But whenever I plug in the compact flash card via the SATA adapter it stops.
I thought that SATA II drives could be used on SATA capable motherboards - they just became slower? Isn't that right?
...maybe it's the adapter that only supports SATA II and doesn't downgrade to SATA...
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