win xp does not recognize SATA drives

[Rolf Welskes]

Hello,
I have a system with windows xp service pack 2.
There I have 2 SATA II hard disks.
But when I check with the intel tool, I see that the disks only run with
ATA/100.

What is to do?

Thank you for any help.
Rolf Welskes

 

[DL]

Did you read the response for your post of yesterday?

 

[Anna]

Hello,
I have a system with windows xp service pack 2.
There I have 2 SATA II hard disks.
But when I check with the intel tool, I see that the disks only run with
ATA/100.

What is to do?

Thank you for any help.
Rolf Welskes

Rolf:
Your XP operating system recognizes the existence of your SATA HDDs, right?
Your concern is that the performance of your SATA HDDs may be adversely
affected because of the "intel tool" report, right? Aside from that "intel
tool" report, is there any evidence that your SATA HDDs are not properly
performing?

Why don't you download HD Tach (it's a freebie) from
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach
and report back on what it shows after testing your HDDs. Just report back
on the "Average read" (x MB/sec) - no other report is necessary - just the
"Average read".
Anna

 

[Rolf Welskes]

Hello,
thank you for your answer.

No, it is not an intel performance tool.
It is an intel manager with witch I can see that the drives run in ATA/100
mode.
Not even in ATA / 133 mode.
But why not in SATA mode ?

Furthermore the driver for the harddisks are the same as for ata drives.

Thank you for any help.
Rolf Welskes

 

[Rolf Welskes]

Hello,
this is wrong,
With the intel tool I can recognize, that the system runs in ATA /100 mode.
But it should use SATA.

Seems there is no driver for sata on win xp sp02.

Any help would be fine.
Rolf Welskes

 

[Edwin vMierlo]

Rolf

when you say "no driver for sata" what driver are you talking about ?
(don't say disk.sys, as every disk has a disk.sys driver)

also, did you download the tool Anna suggested ?
you might want to run that tool, and report back to Anna

rgds,
Edwin.

 

[Rolf Welskes]

Hello,
it's is not the question to check the performance.
It's the question why run the disks in ATA /100 mode.

The intel tool says it runs in ATA 100 not even in ATA /133.
This is the question, not to mesure any performance.

Rolf Welskes