Re: Windows Appears to Recognize a SATA Drive as an IDE Drive
- From: Rob T <RobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:08:00 -0800
The SATA controller is integrated into the motherboare, and the best I can
determine from the Dell support site is that it's a Promise (which it
certainly doesn't show). There's an update for the Promise driver on the
site, but it indicates it's for SATA Raid, which I'm not using, and it won't
install. The download creates a diskette, but there's no executable on it,
so I'm suspecting that it's for inserting at the beginning of a Windows
installation, when it prompts for "... SCSI or Raid controllers". What else
is strange is that in Disk Manager (in Control Panel>Administrative
Tools>Disk Management), the C: drive is shown as "Disk 1" and the D: drive is
shown as "Disk 0". I don't know if that matters, but it's not what I'm used
to seing.
--
Rob Taylor
"DL" wrote:
It depends on the sata controler they are either listed in IDE ATA/ATAPI.
controlers or SCSI & Raid controlers
"Rob T" <RobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3586637C-D4F4-4BCE-8970-91A96B27CE7E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I replaced my IDE C: drive with a SATA drive (I still have an IDE D:
drive).
The BIOS in my computer recognizes the drive as SATA, and the computer
will
run from it, but it runs as slow as the old IDE drive. When I look in
Device
Manager, and System Information, both drives appear to be indicated as
IDE;
i.e. when I look at the properties for the drive all I see are IDE
indications. Also, in Device Manager there's an entry for "IDE ATA/ATAPI
Controllers", but nothing for SATA. The computer is a Dell Dimension
8300,
and I've installed all of the BIOS, Chipset etc updates that are
available,
but still the same.
I don't know if it's because I don't really understand what I'm looking at
in Device Mgr etc., or if Windows really isn't handling the drive as a
SATA
Drive. Does anybody have any information about this situation; are there
Windows drivers that I need to install?
--
Rob Taylor
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