My Sata HDD is in IDE-mode?!

Laurijan · Oct 5, 2007

Hi!

I am just putting together a PC which has a ECS G31T-M mobo and a 160Gb SataII HDD.
It has 4 Sata ports which should allow 3Gb/s according to the manual.

After I installed Windows and the mobo driver CD I started a chipset identification program from Intel which said that the Sata HDD is in IDE mode.
I locked into the device manager and there were entries named "Intel Serial ATA Storage Controller", "Primary IDE Channel" and "Secondary IDE Channel".
When I locked into Primary IDE Channel it said that the Device (HDD) is in "Ultra DMA 5 Mode".
I locked into the Bios and couldn´t find any setting which changed the IDE mode to Sata mode.
Does anyony know something about this problem?

ktr · Oct 5, 2007

Sata can be emulated to IDE, RAID, and some other controllers. In the bios you should see an option on SATA being selected as IDE. Select raid to be reconsidered as a sata drive. But first and foremost is to install the raid drivers, or you comp wont see the drive. And you might have booting problems for the drive number can change, and in result screw up the boot.ini.

Hawk1 · Oct 5, 2007

http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t457699.html

This link will also show you how to change to AHCI SATA mode without a complete reinstall, if you like.

Ripper3 · Oct 5, 2007

I annoyingly need to run my SATA drive in IDE mode unless I reinstall and install the floppy drivers for my motherboard. Too much of a bother for me, I only have SATA1 on this board, so I'm not missing much, 133-150Mbps.

You may jsut need to install the floppy drivers when prompted, after pressing the F6 button, and change the BIOS settings, of course.

Laurijan · Oct 6, 2007

I can´t activate AHCI in Bios - there´s under "Sata Controller Mode" only Auto, Compatible (Sata only), and Enhanced - no AHCI - tried to install Windows in all modes - doesn´t help.

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System Name	Enslaver :)
Processor	Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	ASUS TUF Gaming B650-Plus
Cooling	CPU: Noctua D15 G2, Case: 2 front in, 1 rear out
Memory	2x16GB Kingston Fury Beast RGB 6000MHz
Video Card(s)	ASUS TUF RTX 4070Ti OC
Storage	Samsung Evo Plus 1TB NVMe , internal WD Red 4TB for storage, WD Book 8TB
Display(s)	LG CX OLED 65"
Case	Lian Li LANCOOL II Mesh C Performance
Audio Device(s)	HDMI audio powering Dolby Digital audio on 5.1 Z960 speaker system
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x
Mouse	Logitech G700
Keyboard	ASUS Strix Tactic Pro
Software	Windows 11 Pro x64

My Sata HDD is in IDE-mode?!

Laurijan

ktr

Hawk1

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Ripper3

Laurijan