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See pic in the link.

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

Thanks,
Wy
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Re: Hard confusion by smlunatick

smlunatick
Sat Mar 22 06:20:06 PDT 2008

On Mar 21, 1:47=A0pm, "Wyman" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> Guys -
>
> I'm kinda confused about something. =A0I have a 320gb SATA drive but when =
I look in the BIOS it shows up as IDE. =A0Is it suppose to be this way? =A0S=
ee 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.

Re: Hard confusion by Lil'

Lil'
Sun Mar 23 07:33:06 PDT 2008

"smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4ba35944-3fb9-4aea-a46e-b1d5ce193e60@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 21, 1:47 pm, "Wyman" <nos...@nospam.com> 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.
-----------------------------------------------

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