SATA-SATA II

Hi,
was wondering if some one could shed a bit of light on this for me .
I'm looking to put a 500g HD in my new mac book pro . but some sites list them as SATA and some as SATA II .
can i use both , or do i have have to stick to one or the other .
sorry, prob a stupid question but have to ask

Thanks for the info .
This is the drive i was looking at http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-061-SA
Question is , will this one work ok ?
Thanks

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You'll find system specs below.
When this occurs, as there is _no disk I/O_ I can do just nothing (anything from shifting to next graphical desktop to login etc.). Torrent UP/DL go to 0 (then restart when freeze stop), and disk I/O stops (like a dd if=dvd of=image.iso), then restart !
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Research tell this might be libata related :
Andrew Paprocki wrote:
[PATCH] Added S.M.A.R.T. command decoding to libata error reporting.
* Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:09:20 -0500
Added S.M.A.R.T. command decoding to libata error reporting.
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ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x2 stat 0x50 err 0x0 (HSM violation)
ata1.00: smart cmd 0xd2 (enable/disable attribute autosave)
source : http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg05458.html
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Linux llewellyn 2.6.18-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 1 15:35:16 UTC 2006 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
# hwdetect --show-sata
SATA : libata
# hwdetect --show-scsi
SCSI : ahci sd_mod
# hwdetect --show-ide
IDE : ide-cd ide-core ide-disk alim15x3 generic
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00:12.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7)
00:12.1 IDE interface: ALi Corporation ULi 5289 SATA (rev 10)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller
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IDE interface
alim15x3 : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M5229 IDE
sata_uli : ALi Corporation|ALi M5289 Serial ATA / RAID Host Controller
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unknown : ALi Corporation|ALi M5289 Serial ATA / RAID Host Controller
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jfs 168656 1
vfat 12672 1
fat 48432 1 vfat
ext2 61968 2
ide_disk 14464 2
sata_uli 6660 0
ide_cd 39584 0
cdrom 37160 1 ide_cd
ext3 130832 3
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jbd 61680 1 ext3
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libata 93088 2 sata_uli,ahci
generic 6660 0 [permanent]
alim15x3 11544 0 [permanent]
ide_core 134784 5 usb_storage,ide_disk,ide_cd,generic,alim15x3
sd_mod 18176 8
mkinitcio.conf:
MODULES="sd_mod alim15x3 generic uli526x ahci libata jbd ext3"
HOOKS="base keymap
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HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
/bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
make[1]: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
make: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf', needed by `include/config/kernel.release'. Stop
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