SATA HD problem

[earth4x]

I just bought myself a new Western Digital SE Caviar 200GB SATA harddrive (WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0). I went to a computer store to set it up because I never set up a SATA drive before, come back home, boot up the pc, everything runs fine except when I run Everest Home Edition it tells me my drive is IDE???

It gives me the correct model number and on Western's site it says it's a SATA drive but still.. what could possibly make it an IDE???


CPU Type Intel Pentium 4 530, 3000 MHz (15 x 200)
Motherboard Name MSI 865PE Neo2-PS (MS-6728 v2.0) (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Springdale i865PE
System Memory 512 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (09/29/04)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM3)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Disk Drive WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 (186 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8160B (16x/48x DVD-ROM)
Optical Drive LITE-ON LTR-40125S (40x/12x/48x CD-RW)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

[ WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 (WD-WMAL81523218) ]

ATA Device Properties:
Model ID WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0
Serial Number WD-WMAL81523218
Revision 08.02D08
Parameters 387621 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors per track, 600 bytes per sector
LBA Sectors 390721968
Buffer 8 MB (Dual Ported, Read Ahead)
Multiple Sectors 16
ECC Bytes 74
Max. PIO Transfer Mode PIO 4
Max. UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 6 (ATA-133)
Active UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 6 (ATA-133)
Unformatted Capacity 223573 MB

 

[sturm]

are you running the latest version of everest?
It may just be that its not seeing the sata drive
I ran version 1.10.106 and it saw my drives just fine.

 

[pat]

SATA is only the interface between an IDE drive and an IDE controller. So, yes, your drive is IDE.

SATA is no magical drive. only plain IDE. To date, there is 2 kind of drive.IDE and SCSI. Confusion came because older chipset had to use third party controller to use SATA because native support from chipset was not there. But newer chipset integer the SATA interface and can natively support SATA HDD withoit any drivers, except if the controller is set to RAID.



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[earth4x]

so, does this mean that a S-ATA drive is not faster then a standard UltraATA / IDE drive?

 

[fishmahn]

The interface can transfer more data but the drive itself is still slower.

PATA (Parallel ATA - the old connectors) goes at 100 or 133 MB/sec
SATA goes at 150 or 300 (for SATA II) MB/sec.

7200rpm hard drives don't transfer nearly that fast (about 60MB/sec).

Mike.

 

[pat]

SATA are generally faster not really because of the SATA interface, but more because of the improved logic and drive mechanism.

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