Hard confusion

[Wyman]

Guys -

I'm kinda confused about something. I have a 320gb SATA drive but when I look in the BIOS it shows up as IDE. Is it suppose to be this way? See pic in the link.

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/smileychgo/100_0290.jpg

Thanks,
Wy

[smlunatick]

On Mar 21, 1:47*pm, "Wyman" > wrote:
> Guys -
>
> I'm kinda confused about something. *I have a 320gb SATA drive but when I look in the BIOS it shows up as IDE. *Is it suppose to be this way? *See pic in the link.
>
> http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/smileychgo/100_0290.jpg
>
> Thanks,
> Wy

Some PCs / motherboards have a setting to let the SATA drive be seen
ad a standard IDE drive. This is to let the drive boot without
additional drivers and everything should be ok.

[Lil' Dave]

"smlunatick" > wrote in message
...
On Mar 21, 1:47 pm, "Wyman" > wrote:
> Guys -
>
> I'm kinda confused about something. I have a 320gb SATA drive but when I
> look in the BIOS it shows up as IDE. Is it suppose to be this way? See pic
> in the link.
>
> http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/smileychgo/100_0290.jpg
>
> Thanks,
> Wy

Some PCs / motherboards have a setting to let the SATA drive be seen
ad a standard IDE drive. This is to let the drive boot without
additional drivers and everything should be ok.
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As an example, in my bios there is an option to map SATA to ide (either
primary or secondary). The SATA hard drives show up as primary master and
slave when I do that. If I leave SATA (controller) at default, the SATA
drives show up as master and slave on a non-existent 3rd ide controller.

Also, if I leave SATA (controller) at default, a 3rd ide controller shows up
in the bios summary at boot time. If I map SATA (the controller) to primary
or secondary ide in the bios setup, the 3rd ide controller does not show on
the bios summary at boot time.

--
Dave