Hoping that somebody here can help me with this since I've been trying to find answers for some time now:
I have a new system based on the Asus P5WDH motherboard and I have two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATAII drives. I want to use both drives (one for OS and the other for data) so I'm not running RAID.
My problem is that my system seems slow and when I run Sandra on the physical drives the drives are listed as "ATA", not "SATA", and I see the following message:
"Warning W3104 - Current transfer mode not optimal, i.e. not highest supported. This affects drive performance. If the controller is also capable of the highest supported transfer mode, there is no reason not to use it."
Also, when I run Intel's chip utility, it reports the following:
Intel(R) 82801GB/GR I/O controller hub (ICH7/ICH7R) SATA Controller found in IDE mode.
I'm not sure I understand the difference between ATA and IDE but my understanding is that the drives should be listed as SATA.
I checked my BIOS and I can see (in IDE Configuration) that SATA is configured as "Standard IDE" in "Enhanced mode" (with a subcategory of S-ATA) - the other options are RAID and AHCI.
My understanding is that in order to run my drives as individual SATA drives while not running RAID, I should set them to AHCI, but when I do that, the drives aren't recognized anymore so I can't boot Windows with that setting.
Does anybody know how I can set the drives to AHCI or get them to behave as SATA drives? I would prefer it if I don't have to reformat my drives but if that's what it takes I can do that (however, I don't even know if that will do it at this point).
I have a new system based on the Asus P5WDH motherboard and I have two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATAII drives. I want to use both drives (one for OS and the other for data) so I'm not running RAID.
My problem is that my system seems slow and when I run Sandra on the physical drives the drives are listed as "ATA", not "SATA", and I see the following message:
"Warning W3104 - Current transfer mode not optimal, i.e. not highest supported. This affects drive performance. If the controller is also capable of the highest supported transfer mode, there is no reason not to use it."
Also, when I run Intel's chip utility, it reports the following:
Intel(R) 82801GB/GR I/O controller hub (ICH7/ICH7R) SATA Controller found in IDE mode.
I'm not sure I understand the difference between ATA and IDE but my understanding is that the drives should be listed as SATA.
I checked my BIOS and I can see (in IDE Configuration) that SATA is configured as "Standard IDE" in "Enhanced mode" (with a subcategory of S-ATA) - the other options are RAID and AHCI.
My understanding is that in order to run my drives as individual SATA drives while not running RAID, I should set them to AHCI, but when I do that, the drives aren't recognized anymore so I can't boot Windows with that setting.
Does anybody know how I can set the drives to AHCI or get them to behave as SATA drives? I would prefer it if I don't have to reformat my drives but if that's what it takes I can do that (however, I don't even know if that will do it at this point).
