Is the Samsung Sh-183L really a SATA Drive??

Just poking around in my rig settings and noticed something odd..The only drives listed under NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA controller in Device Manager are my Raptors.My Sammy "SATA" drive is listed under Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller-Primary IDE Channel..WTF??I have SATA 1,2,3,4, enabled in my BIOS on the rig in my sig..Did they pull a fast one or do I have something mixed up..Perhaps these are IDE drives with SATA adapters??

Any clues??

Mods..I moved this here for more exposure..Please delete the other one if you feel..Thanx

Originally Posted by g1xx3r

Just poking around in my rig settings and noticed something odd..The only drives listed under NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA controller in Device Manager are my Raptors.My Sammy "SATA" drive is listed under Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller-Primary IDE Channel..WTF??I have SATA 1,2,3,4, enabled in my BIOS on the rig in my sig..Did they pull a fast one or do I have something mixed up..Perhaps these are IDE drives with SATA adapters??

Any clues??

Mods..I moved this here for more exposure..Please delete the other one if you feel..Thanx

You can lock (and I believe delete) your threads. Anyway, to answer your question, your system sees the drive as IDE compatible, but it truly is SATA.

The pair of identical (except for their faceplates) Samsung SATA optical drives are bridge-based SATA drives; however, there is no evidence that their being bridge-based affects their operations one way or another (PATA-to-SATA-bridged optical drives, and hard drives, are still relatively commonplace, and in the case of optical drives, there is no particular reason to opt for a native solution over a bridged solution, even for performance reasons, as no optical drive could even drown the SATA-150 performance ceiling). This may be a *quirk* of the nForce SATA controller (it detects the bridge, and thus *recognizes* the Sammy as the PATA drive it would normally be); this same issue has occurred with bridged SATA hard drives (such as my own Maxtor 6L200SA 200 GB SATA), but only with the nForce SATA solution (my P4C800-E Deluxe snags the drive as native SATA, even though it's a bridged drive).

Originally Posted by PGHammer

The pair of identical (except for their faceplates) Samsung SATA optical drives are bridge-based SATA drives; however, there is no evidence that their being bridge-based affects their operations one way or another (PATA-to-SATA-bridged optical drives, and hard drives, are still relatively commonplace, and in the case of optical drives, there is no particular reason to opt for a native solution over a bridged solution, even for performance reasons, as no optical drive could even drown the SATA-150 performance ceiling). This may be a *quirk* of the nForce SATA controller (it detects the bridge, and thus *recognizes* the Sammy as the PATA drive it would normally be); this same issue has occurred with bridged SATA hard drives (such as my own Maxtor 6L200SA 200 GB SATA), but only with the nForce SATA solution (my P4C800-E Deluxe snags the drive as native SATA, even though it's a bridged drive).

Thanx..that explains it then...

Originally Posted by g1xx3r

Thanx..that explains it then...

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Originally Posted by PGHammer

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1152228072975

Price drop through 1/21 at all locations (including BestBuy.com).

Thanx for the heads up,off to BB to recoup the difference!!..

I've just fitted two SATA Lite-On SH-16A7S in my PC and they are picked up correctly in nVidia drivers and listed as ATA-100 in the POST screen of my Foxconn BIOS.

Great drives for only £21 each!