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    IDE or SATA

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by latief, Oct 21, 2006.

  1. latief

    latief Notebook Geek

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    On my new W2jb, if you look in the device manager, there is no mention of any SATA controller, and the harddrive seemed to be advertised as SATA, am i missing something? why does my harddrive show up as an IDE drive even in the bios? it is under primary IDE device over there ......

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    You bought a system which has an SATA hard drive and that you can prove by removing a simple screw on the hard drive cover.
     
    PROPortable, Oct 21, 2006
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    i have no doubt that my machine is an SATA machine. my question is more about why windows is treating/ showing it as an IDE system. is that specific to this chipset 945pm, or is there a driver issue or something going on ?

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  4. Jumper

    Jumper Notebook Deity

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    IDE = Integrated Drive Electronics. Parallel ATA and Serial ATA drives are both IDE. All it means is that the electronics required to run the drive are on the drive itself. Way back when the first hard drives had their controlling electronics seperate from the drives, which was a royal pain in the ass because there was no standardization. IDE lets the manufacturer have whatever controller design they want on the PCB on the bottom of the drive, and the whole thing talks to you PC through a standard interface cable.

    If you go into Device Manager and look under 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' you should see a Parallel ATA controller for your optical drives and a Serial ATA controller for your hard drive.
     
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    Oh, well if that's the case, Jumper really hit the nail on the head for you then.
     
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    Is the hard disk on the W3V ATA or SATA?
     
    Starchild, Nov 21, 2006
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