What's the jumper "enable 1.5GB PHY" on a Western Digital hard disk?

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I've got a new hard disk. On the label there is a description of the jumper settings: One of them is: Jumpered pins 5 and 6 enables 1.5GB PHY What does PHY stand for?

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It's SATA II disk, right? And if you put jumper on these pins HDDs will be SATA I. It's there for if your motherboard doesn't support SATA II.

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