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    SATA Hard Drive / AHCI / IDE Channel

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by wolfej, Mar 10, 2010.

  1. wolfej

    wolfej Notebook Enthusiast

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    Quick question - If anyone has their laptop hard drive set as "AHCI" (not RAID or IRRT)in the bios and it is using a SATA AHCI Controller, does "System Information" show the hard drive on a "IDE" connection?

    My Dell M4400 with a new SATA hard drive is installed as "AHCI" in bios and Windows 7 has it connected using "Intel SATA AHCI Controller", but in "System Information" it shows the hard drive under "Storage" - "IDE" on IRQ 19. I had it in my head that a SATA hard drive didn't connect through IDE, but the only other choice is "SCSI".

    Just curious and any feed back would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks
     
    wolfej, Mar 10, 2010
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