asus AV8 Deluxe and SATAII

[Eagler]

does anyone know if the asus AV8 will work with a western digital 250mb sata II WD2500KSRTL hard drive? I have sata I drives in it now but was wondering if this board can handle the faster SATA II drives? If not, can the sata mode be set to I instead of II and have it work?
tia

[Kev367th]

SATA II is supposed to be backwards compatible with SATA I.

So they should work but at SATA I speeds only.

It should also be possible to lock the drive to SATA I speeds using the following document form Western digital, just a matter of setting a jumper.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1337&p_created=1112379341&p_sid=k4nvDfai&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjgmcF9wcm9kcz05NSZwX2NhdHM9MTIzJnBfcHY9MS45NSZwX2N2PTEuMTIzJnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfZm5sJnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9Zm9yY2Ugc2F0YSBp&p_li=&p_topview=1