SATA's registering at ATA 100's?

Tigermoth · 27 Apr 2006 at 14:33

Hi Guys,

Just a little oddity I’ve noticed when booting:
In the second post menu of my DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D, where it checks the CMOS etc. it says that my 2 Hitachi deskstar SATA HDD's are ATA 100. I thought this was a little odd.

I recently installed another HDD (Samsung spinpoint SATA) and it is registered on this screen as ATA133.

Surely they should all be 150?

Any idea why this is?

Dutch Guy · 27 Apr 2006 at 15:02

I think that the nForce4 SATA ports simulate IDE ports, IIRC this is also the reason you do not need to install the SATA drivers from the floppy when installing Windows.

Tigermoth · 28 Apr 2006 at 19:21

Ah! thanks,
that makes sense.

JamieLee2k · 29 Apr 2006 at 01:36

How do I know what speed mine is running at?