SSD as IDE 4 Slave?

TheOnlyMeta

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I've been reading online that with an SSD I should be getting boot times of under 20 seconds. This is not the case, it is sometimes double this. I think I have located the problem, in the BIOS it shows my boot drive at the bottom of the list of connected drives, under IDE 1, 2 and 3 (all of which show no connected drive), and showing it as 4's Slave even though it doesn't show a Master drive in IDE 4.

What boggles my mind even more is that (obviously) this is not an IDE drive, it is a SATA3 drive, connected to a SATA3 port on my motherboard. My 1TB storage HDD (SATA2) does not show up in this IDE area (nor anywhere else in the BIOS as far as I can see) yet it seems to be working perfectly fine.

So yeah, strange problem, help?
 
What motherboard do you have?

I thought you might have changed SATA ports to IDE mode, but not sure why the 1TB isn't showing. Unles two different SATA controllers present and other is still in AHCI mode.
 
OK, my 1TB HDD does exist in the BIOS, as it shows up in the boot list (and it says it's an SCSI where it says my SSD is an IDE). All the hard drive settings are set to AHCI, none are IDE.

For the record, I have a Gigabyte Z68 X UD3H B3 mobo.

Some other strange hard drive symptoms that I've seen are:
-It giving me the option to eject my SSD within Windows' 'safely remove hardware and eject media', but not my HDD. (It recognises the SSD as Local Disk C: though, so how on earth could it eject itself?)
-Within the software I got with my mobo there is Intel Rapid Storage Technology. This software recognises my HDD and DVD Drive but not my SSD.

This is all a little strange. I'm gonna try plug my SSD into the other SATA3 port and see what happens.
 
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