No SATA III on fitPC3

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sesterce
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No SATA III on fitPC3

Post by sesterce »

Hi,

When will the updated BIOS supporting SATA III will be released? It was promised almost a month ago on another thread.

Thanks,

Jean

igor
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Re: No SATA III on fitPC3

Post by igor »

We apologize for the delay. The new BIOS will be released until 20/Sep/2012.

igor
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Re: No SATA III on fitPC3

Post by igor »

BIOS with SATA-III support has been released at http://www.fit-pc.com/wiki/index.php/Fi ... _ROM_Files.

sesterce
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Re: No SATA III on fitPC3

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It does not work. Even with the new BIOS my SATA III drive is still running at SATA II speed.

Leonid
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Re: No SATA III on fitPC3

Post by Leonid »

Hi,

1. Check the version of the BIOS. It should be SBC_2.1.0.333_12.

2. Check that SATA Mode in the BIOS settings: AMD->chipset Settings->Sata Settings. It should be set to the SATA 3.

3. What storage device do you use?

4. How do you test the speed of the storage device?
Leonid Firdman

sesterce
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Re: No SATA III on fitPC3

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Leonid wrote:Hi,

1. Check the version of the BIOS. It should be SBC_2.1.0.333_12.

2. Check that SATA Mode in the BIOS settings: AMD->chipset Settings->Sata Settings. It should be set to the SATA 3.

3. What storage device do you use?

4. How do you test the speed of the storage device?
.

Hi Leonid,

I posted the answers for all these questions in the other thread: "Mint claims SATA-II controller" but nobody from Compulab seems to read it!

sesterce
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Re: No SATA III on fitPC3

Post by sesterce »

So here it is again. This has been posted since last Wednesday without any answers.

I just flashed the BIOS and made sure SATA 3 was choosen in the BIOS and although the controller now seems to be recognized as SATA 6 Gps my mSATA Crucial M4 CT032M4SSD3 SSD is still running at SATA II 3.0 Gps. This is a SATA III 6 Gps drive. My other drive is a Seagate ST250LT003 SATA II 3.0 gps.
Running Mint 13 Mate 64 bits installed as per the instructions on the wiki.

Am I missing something here?

Regards,

Jean

jean@fitPC ~ $ dmesg |grep SATA
[ 0.979063] ahci 0000:00:11.0: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 4 ports 6 Gbps 0x33 impl SATA mode
[ 0.983098] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xc124c000 port 0xc124c100 irq 19
[ 0.983104] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xc124c000 port 0xc124c180 irq 19
[ 0.983115] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xc124c000 port 0xc124c300 irq 19
[ 0.983121] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xc124c000 port 0xc124c380 irq 19
[ 1.318616] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.318707] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 1.488116] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 1.488155] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)


Hi, I just did a test with Disk Utility.

279 Mb/s read speed for the mSATA SSD. This looks like SATA II speed only.

Regards,

Jean



Just to be sure that the mSATA Crucial SSD support SATA III, I ran hdparm -I /dev/sdb as root.

Here is the relevant output:

* Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
* Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
* Gen3 signaling speed (6.0Gb/s)

It does indeed support the 3 SATA modes and the asterix beside them indicate they are all enabled.

Regards,

Jean

sesterce
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Re: No SATA III on fitPC3

Post by sesterce »

One week and still no answer to this problem from anybody at Compulab.

I should have bought a Mac Mini instead.

gabrielh
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Re: No SATA III on fitPC3

Post by gabrielh »

I am sorry for the late answer. We are during our our Holiday season until the end of the month, which reflects on the reply times.

From your post, I see you are using mSATA SSD drive. The mSATA interface provides officially only SATA I interface. To get advantage of a SATA III interface, you should use the 2.5" SATA interface.
Gabriel Heifets

Fit-PC2/3/IntensePC support.

sesterce
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Re: No SATA III on fitPC3

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gabrielh wrote: The mSATA interface provides officially only SATA I interface. To get advantage of a SATA III interface, you should use the 2.5" SATA interface.
Wrong. I get SATA II on the mSATA drive. And when you say "officialy" you must be talking about Compulab personel only because the rest of the world is using/selling SATA III 6 Gps mSATA drives. Since the begining in 2009 mSATA support SATA I and II.

And why did Igor told me this on another thread: "...although we have not tested explicitly the SATA channel connected to mSATA, it is the same controller. So the BIOS fix should apply to mSATA as well."

As a customer I get the feeling that I am paying a high price for being your beta tester.

Regards,

Jean

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