Is SATA-2 reverse compatible? 2

[thenewa2x]

I'm looking at getting this motherboard:

MSI "K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI" NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 939 CPU -RETAIL

But it says it provides support for SATA-2 and I don't see it mentioning SATA (previous version). Does this mean it only supports SATA-2 and not 1.

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[paparazi]

thenewa2x
Yes it does both.

See this quote:
The MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI also features an additional Serial ATA II /RAID controller, which is a nice treat. Serial ATA II offers a whole host of improvements over the original Serial ATA standard, not just a speed increase.

Note ADDITIONAL*

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1734&page=2

I've got the Gigabte GA-K8NXP-SLI-8? which is there equivellent and it had both as well.

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[thenewa2x]

oooh thanks. i just learned something new from that too.

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[cdogg]

Just wanted to point out the following for others that might be wondering about SATA-II in general...

An SATA-II connector is backwards compatible and supports SATA-I drives.

When you have an SATA-II drive and an SATA-I connector, the drive will still work, but possibly without some SATA-II features enabled like NCW (Native Command Queuing). It all depends on the motherboard manufacturer and whether they have released official support through driver updates.

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[thenewa2x]

thx.

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