how to use sata hard drive in Asus p5l-mx

[asifakhtar]

Hi,
I want to use sata hard drive in Asus p5l-mx but I only see IDE in bios. Please see pic for more info http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2uz9dhv&s=5


Thanks

 

[Dahak]

Just plug it in and it will work. It is just the way that this board lists the hard drives.
The first two items in the list is the IDE ports
The Next four are the sata ports. So when you install a sata drive, it will list on one of those four

 

[asifakhtar]

Just plug it in and it will work. It is just the way that this board lists the hard drives.
The first two items in the list is the IDE ports
The Next four are the sata ports. So when you install a sata drive, it will list on one of those four

Thanks for your suggestion.