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onurbmil

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November 13th, 2004 09:00

SATA HDD running on IDE controller?

I checked my device manager, my who-knows-what-brand 120gb SATA drive is set on the Primary IDE master as UDMA 5!!??! WTH?!?

*note: I realised there is also no SATA drivers provided with the sata drive. I did not install sata drives when i installed windows from the dell win xp cd.. is that normal?

tigerdub

9 Posts

November 13th, 2004 09:00

(sry bad english,me is german :)

first a link :

http://www.tweakpc.de/hardware/tests/mb/abitbh7/abitbh7.htm  (sry, hope u can a little bit german ;)
 
shortly translated (i give my best)
 
some boards share ide and s-ata.  if s-ata is diabled the prim/sec ide port is availbl. if s-ata is enabled the s-ata disk uses the primnary port of this ide connector.  interessting that in that case
u don´t need to install a s-ata driver.
 
so it don´t seem like a problem i think
 
gl&hf
 

tigerdub

9 Posts

November 13th, 2004 10:00

u can use the secondary ide channel normally.
the primary is reserved for the s-ata.
 
gl&hf
 
 

onurbmil

8 Posts

November 13th, 2004 10:00

ok.. np. I have german friends! :D

Anyway.. so i should be able to use my primary IDE for another optical drive? Do i put it on as slave or master?

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