How set up SATA I and SATA II drive on 975X MSI board??

I have an SATA I drive in the system as a primary. Am adding another drive-SATA II and will make it the primary boot drive using the Lifeguard utilities and such that came with the Western Digital 320GB hard drive.
Thus I will have both an SATA I and an SATA II drive in the system.
Do I need to force Gen II to get the speed out of the primary drive?
How can I be sure I am getting the hypothetical 300MB/S?
Thanks so much for helping me out.
Peter

You would be better off, backing up all data, and then using both drives in a RAID 0 for best performance, you will find all information in the following thread. I have set up my system using ACHI, SATA enhance and RAID and all benchmarking of each mode.
HDTach 8mb Results: Using Maxtor 80GB DiamondMAx SATA I & Maxtor 80GB DiamondMAx SATA II, maybe not the best in the world
SATA I in IDE/ENHANCED mode FORCE GEN I
Burst Speed: 121.6mb/s
Random Access: 19.5ms
CPU utilization: 2%
Average Read: 47.3mb/s
SATA II in IDE/ENHANCED mode Force GEN II
Burst Speed: 198.0mb/s
Random Access: 19.4ms
CPU utilization: 2%
Average Read: 57.9
SATA II in AHCI mode Force GEN II
Burst Speed: 215.3mb/s
Random Access: 21.8ms
CPU utilization: 1%
Average Read: 59.0mb/s
Maxtor Diamond 80GB SATA II and 250GB SATA I = 150GB Logical RAID 0 test with HDTach 3, 8mb test:
Burst Speed : 320.9 mb/s
Average Read : 120.3 mb/s
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=100940.40
Gaucho

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