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Greegor writes:
Glen wrote
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Bill W wrote
When the BIOS is set to IDE Mode, Windows uses the
stock IDE drivers that has been in Windows since
1990 or earlier. Unfortunately for me, my 12 SATA
machines have no such BIOS setting. And five of
them only have a RAID setting as far as hard drives goes.

Greegor wrote
The BIOS in some systems refer to this option
under SATA settings as Normal/Combination mode.
As in a SATA port that emulates an IDE port to SW,
therefore "combined".

JP Gilliver
I don't get 'therefore "combined"'; if I saw such
an option, I'd assume it was talking about
something to do with RAID.

RAID on a netbook?

By the time I came into the thread, the fact it was a netbook had got
lost - I agree unlikely!

Wouldn't an OEM be more inclined to have RAID
actually labeled as RAID, as a sales feature?

Not sure; depends on the market aimed at. Among newcomers, "combined"
might be more understandable than "RAID".

Out of all of the different OEM's, there are probably
several other ways to describe the mode in which
SATA ports present themselves to the OS as IDE.

Indeed. (I just couldn't really think _why_ "combined" should mean
"looks like IDE", but I'm sure someone can.)
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