Sata II Drive in a Sata I Motherboard

I was planning to setup a encrypted partition with these 2 drives I just bought and I got the idea of writing random data to the drive before actually using them. I used dban to wipe them in my Desktop which supports Sata II. When I placed the drives into my Server the drives weren't showing up.

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Turns out Hitachi drives will detect if the motherboard supports Sata II or not. They configured themselves for Sata II which is why my Server couldn't see them. This feature tool from Hitachi allowed me to reconfigure them but I had to connect them to my Desktop again.