Intel ICH5-integrated SATA controllers

[tcsenter]

I am working on a friend's computer with an Intel 865G + ICH5 (non-RAID) chipset. The board features two SATA ports and two standard IDE channels, both of which are enabled in BIOS.

The SATA controllers don't have their own category in Device Manager, nor are they listed as Serial ATA devices. Instead, they are listed under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers as:

Intel 82801EB (ICH5) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Intel 82801EB (ICH5) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Primary IDE Channel
Primary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel

Is this normal?

I installed Windows XP SP2, all Windows Updates (including device drivers), plus the latest applicable Intel Chipset INF support. I tried installing the Intel Matrix Storage driver but it doesn't apply to non-RAID SATA controllers.

I'm used to VIA and SIS showing SATA controllers as...well...SATA controllers.

 

[tcsenter]

bing..bump

 

[Tates]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
I am working on a friend's computer with an Intel 865G + ICH5 (non-RAID) chipset. The board features two SATA ports and two standard IDE channels, both of which are enabled in BIOS.

The SATA controllers don't have their own category in Device Manager, nor are they listed as Serial ATA devices. Instead, they are listed under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers as:

Intel 82801EB (ICH5) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Intel 82801EB (ICH5) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Primary IDE Channel
Primary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel

Is this normal?

Yep

I installed Windows XP SP2, all Windows Updates (including device drivers), plus the latest applicable Intel Chipset INF support. I tried installing the Intel Matrix Storage driver but it doesn't apply to non-RAID SATA controllers.

I'm used to VIA and SIS showing SATA controllers as...well...SATA controllers.

Intel Matrix Storage driver is for RAID. If the board doesn't support, all you need is Intel Chipset INF.

 

[tcsenter]

Ok, great. Thanks!

 

[Peter]

Point being that Intel's first-generation SATA interfaces don't use a specific SATA programming model, but cloak themselves as plain normal PCI IDE. The benefit is driverless installation, the drawbacks are user confusion and lack of SATA-specific features like hot plugging.

 

[tcsenter]

I kept thinking there was a driver out there that I wasn't finding. VIA VT8237-integrated SATA controllers will similarly be installed under XP SP2 as standard IDE/ATA Controllers until SATA drivers from VIA are installed. Had me wondering. Thanks again.

 

[Peter]

As was the case with PCI IDE, you can always choose to install a vendor provided SATA interface driver rather than the generic one Windows brings - if there is one.