hi
i just bought a new comp (p2.8 abit ic7 mb maxtor 120gb sata hd 6y120mo)
until now i thought i was actually having sata enabled on my machine (winxp) but when i checked the speed and udma mode it was udma100 and i figured the sata isnt actually enabled on my sys.
i tried installing the drivers but it says device not found
my question is if i want to actually use SATA features does my ide channel have to be in RAID mode and not IDE (would that let me enable sata on winxp ?) right now in the bios onchip serial ata is set at auto (onchip sata mode: IDE , SATA RAID ROM: enabled)
i have the ability to chance it to either enhanced/combined/sata only(in which case it doesnt recognize my cdrom as its parallel ata)
i just bought a new comp (p2.8 abit ic7 mb maxtor 120gb sata hd 6y120mo)
until now i thought i was actually having sata enabled on my machine (winxp) but when i checked the speed and udma mode it was udma100 and i figured the sata isnt actually enabled on my sys.
i tried installing the drivers but it says device not found
my question is if i want to actually use SATA features does my ide channel have to be in RAID mode and not IDE (would that let me enable sata on winxp ?) right now in the bios onchip serial ata is set at auto (onchip sata mode: IDE , SATA RAID ROM: enabled)
i have the ability to chance it to either enhanced/combined/sata only(in which case it doesnt recognize my cdrom as its parallel ata)