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Author: Rob TRob T Date: Feb 9, 2008 13:23
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?
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Rob Taylor
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Author: JerryJerry Date: Feb 9, 2008 13:58
I believe that's a limitation of XP.
I have two each SATA CD/DVD drives/burners - they are both identified as a
'SCSI CdRom Device' - yet both function correctly as DVDs. Other diagnostic
programs have similar problems with correctly identifying SATA devices.
My two SATA harddrives just appear as hard drives - no IDE/SATA/Scsi as part
of their identity in Device Manager.
"Rob T" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Author: peterpeter Date: Feb 9, 2008 17:54
in device manager if you expand the IDE ATA/Atapi controller you should
fine both a Parallel IDE controller (PATA) and a Serial ATA controller
(SATA)..........when you click properties on either one it should show the
channels at the top of the box when you click the channels it should show
you the name of the HD connected to that channel.
If you check your BIOS you should find a setting to turn on the SATA
abilities......not sure where is is in a Dell.
If the setting in the BIOS is on and the controller does not show under
device manager then the drivers are NOT installed.
peter
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"Rob T" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3586637C-D4F4-4BCE-8970-91A96B27CE7E@microsoft.com...> I replaced my IDE C: drive with a SATA drive (I still have an IDE D:
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Author: JerryJerry Date: Feb 9, 2008 19:25
Where are you getting that info? I did what you said and found no such info
and I have two each SATA hard drives and two each SATA CD/DVD burners.
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Date: Feb 10, 2008 03:45
I believe it depends on the Controller in ATA/ATAPI devices.
Nvidea sata controler is displayed in DM as 'Serial ATA Controler'
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news:en9JgS5aIHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...> Where are you getting that info? I did what you said and found no such
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Date: Feb 10, 2008 03:46
It depends on the sata controler they are either listed in IDE ATA/ATAPI
controlers or SCSI & Raid controlers
"Rob T" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Author: Rob TRob T Date: Feb 10, 2008 08:03
In my DM, when I expand the IDE ATA/Atapi item, all I have there are:
Intel(R) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Intel(R) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Primary IDE Channel
Primary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel
In the SCSI and Raid Controllers are:
ACARD AEC-6710 PCE SCSI Controller (Windows 2000/XP)
NERO IMAGEDRIVE SCSI Controller
I don't have any SCSI Devices installed, and I think the "NERO" entry is
something that the Nero Burning software installed. If I don't have the SATA
drivers installed, how do I install them? I've...
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Author: V GreenV Green Date: Feb 10, 2008 09:34
"Rob T" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:460DEDE0-6C90-43F6-BD17-086010A5B21C@microsoft.com...> In my DM, when I expand the IDE ATA/Atapi item, all I have there are:
> Intel(R) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
> Intel(R) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
> Primary IDE Channel
> Primary IDE Channel
> Secondary IDE Channel
>
> In the SCSI and Raid Controllers are:
> ACARD AEC-6710 PCE SCSI Controller (Windows 2000/XP)
> NERO IMAGEDRIVE SCSI Controller
>
> I don't have any SCSI Devices installed, and I think the "NERO" entry is
> something that the Nero Burning software installed. If I don't have the SATA
> drivers installed, how do I install them? I've looked everywhere, but can't
> find them anywhere. I checked the Dell website, and installed everything
> that I could install. There're three items listed for SATA; 1) A utility to
> manage a RAID Array (which I don't have), 2) A firmware upgrade for the
> Promise Serial ATA Raid controller, that I aparently don't have, since I got ...
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Author: Rob TRob T Date: Feb 10, 2008 15:00
Thanks for the idea. I located and installed three benchmark programs, and
the results were as follows:
Test 1 C: (SATA) Avg 2.7MB/s; D: (IDE) Avg 20.5MB/s
Test 2 C: (SATA) Avg 3.2MB/s; D: (IDE) Avg 45.4MB/s
Test 3 C: (SATA) Avg 2.3MB/s; D: (IDE) Avg 58.3MB/s
The SATA transfer rates are abssurdly low, and even the IDE speeds are far
less than the Ultra ATA 100 rating for the drive. Since the computer is 5
years old, I also tried plugging the SATA drive for SATA 150, but the results
were virtually the same.
Perhaps this isn't a tempest in a teapot and would appear that I do, in
fact, need to get some resolution before going on with my life.
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Rob Taylor
"V Green" wrote:
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> "Rob T" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:460DEDE0-6C90-43F6-BD17-086010A5B21C@microsoft.com...>> In my DM, when I expand the IDE ATA/Atapi item, all I have there are:
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Author: Rob TRob T Date: Feb 10, 2008 15:08
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.
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Rob Taylor
"DL" wrote:
> It depends on the sata controler they are either listed in IDE ATA/ATAPI
> controlers or SCSI & Raid controlers
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> "Rob T" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3586637C-D4F4-4BCE...
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