sata drive showing up under 'ide controller' in device manager.

[steve.anon]

Maybe this is a very dumb question, but my sata drive (the only hdd in
the system) is showing up under 'primary ide channel' of my 'standard
dual channel pci ide controller'.

I was expecting to see a controller for sata, and 2 controllers for
Ide. My mobo is a P5ND2-SLI Deluxe
(http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket775/p5nd2-sli-d/overview.htm)

Any idea?

Cheers,

Steve.

 

[steve.anon]

I should have mentionned, i'm running xp sp2 with all the latest patch.
Cheers.

 

[V Green]

Did you run the driver stuff from the ASUS CD that came with
the MB?

Since you're saying (and I assume this is a direct quote from
Device Manager) that you have a "standard dual channel
PCI IDE controller", it appears that you haven't.

Also, there's a lot of options in the BIOS re: SATA / ATA
you need to set.

 

[steve.anon]

Tx VGreen,

Yes I did run the sata driver setup, and the bios is configured
properly. An interesting thing is that if I place the ide cdrom on the
primary ide channel as master, the cdrom wont work. This could be
because the sata drive does indeed use the primary ide channel.

I think the sata drive is using the ide controller, and maybe there is
no need for a special 'sata' display icon in the device manager. What
do you see in yours?

cheers,

Steve.

 

[V Green]

Tx VGreen,

Yes I did run the sata driver setup, and the bios is configured
properly. An interesting thing is that if I place the ide cdrom on the
primary ide channel as master, the cdrom wont work. This could be
because the sata drive does indeed use the primary ide channel.

I think the sata drive is using the ide controller, and maybe there is
no need for a special 'sata' display icon in the device manager. What
do you see in yours?

cheers,

Steve.

I don't have the same board as you, but here's
what I see in Device Manager:

--------------------------------------------------------------------





Selected Resource Report - Page: 1

******************** SYSTEM DEVICE CLASS ********************

Class: IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Device: Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Resource:
IRQ: [00000018]
IO: [0000C000 - 0000C007]
IO: [0000C400 - 0000C403]
IO: [0000C800 - 0000C807]
IO: [0000CC00 - 0000CC03]
IO: [0000D000 - 0000D00F]
Device Drivers:

Class: IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Device: Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Resource:
MEM: [FEBFFC00 - FEBFFFFF]
IO: [0000F000 - 0000F00F]
Device Drivers:

Class: IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Device: Primary IDE Channel
Resource:
IRQ: [00000014]
IO: [000001F0 - 000001F7]
IO: [000003F6 - 000003F6]
Device Drivers:

Class: IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Device: Secondary IDE Channel
Resource:
IRQ: [00000015]
IO: [00000170 - 00000177]
IO: [00000376 - 00000376]
Device Drivers:

Class: IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Device: Primary IDE Channel
No resources used.
Device Drivers:

Class: IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Device: Secondary IDE Channel
No resources used.
Device Drivers:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

No mention of SATA anywhere, yet it's working fine
and benchmarks are where they should be.

You might want to try the support.intel.com site for
updated chipset identification "drivers".

 

[Santas Sun]

Because SATA host has three working type:
RAID, AHCI and Combined Mode.
If ur SATA working on RAID and AHCI mode. U have to install a driver with
diskette before installing the whole OS(windows xp).
But when using combined mode, u needn't to install any driver, and ur SATA
host will replace two(maybe more) IDE port and will be recognized to IDE
HDD, too.
_______________________________________
Intel(R) 82801FR SATA AHCI Controller
IO: E900-E907
EA00-EA03
EB00-EB07
...
Memory: D01C3000-D01C33FF
IRQs: 19