Hard drive configuration question

Hi,
I purchased a WD Raptor drive and decided to set it up as sata. I made
the connections according to my P4P800 manual. But when I went in to the
BIOS to make sure it was set up as sata, I noticed that things were
setup like this:
Primary IDE Master: Not Detected
Secondary IDE Master: My CD Rom

Forth IDE Master: WD740GD (Hard Drive)

Is this correct? It doesn't seem so, the hard drive is fast but not as
fast as I thought it would be, so I'm wondering if this is making a
difference.

Thanks

Al wrote:
Hi,
I purchased a WD Raptor drive and decided to set it up as sata. I made
the connections according to my P4P800 manual. But when I went in to the
BIOS to make sure it was set up as sata, I noticed that things were
setup like this:
Primary IDE Master: Not Detected
Secondary IDE Master: My CD Rom

Forth IDE Master: WD740GD (Hard Drive)

Is this correct? It doesn't seem so, the hard drive is fast but not as
fast as I thought it would be, so I'm wondering if this is making a
difference.


I would suspect that the SATA controller is described as the third and
fourth IDE device. So yeah.

Ben
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"Al" wrote in message
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Hi,
I purchased a WD Raptor drive and decided to set it up as sata. I made
the connections according to my P4P800 manual. But when I went in to the
BIOS to make sure it was set up as sata, I noticed that things were
setup like this:
Primary IDE Master: Not Detected
Secondary IDE Master: My CD Rom

Forth IDE Master: WD740GD (Hard Drive)

Is this correct?

Yep.

It doesn't seem so, the hard drive is fast but not as
fast as I thought it would be, so I'm wondering if this is making a
difference.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone for your replies.

Al

"Ed" wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:17:59 -0700, Al wrote:

Hi,
I purchased a WD Raptor drive and decided to set it up as sata. I made
the connections according to my P4P800 manual. But when I went in to the
BIOS to make sure it was set up as sata, I noticed that things were
setup like this:
Primary IDE Master: Not Detected
Secondary IDE Master: My CD Rom

Forth IDE Master: WD740GD (Hard Drive)

Is this correct? It doesn't seem so, the hard drive is fast but not as
fast as I thought it would be, so I'm wondering if this is making a
difference.

Thanks

http://www.storagereview.com/article...WD740GD_2.html

Ed