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SATA mode terminology

G

Goi

Diamond Member
Hi,

I'm writing some documentation, and I'm wondering if there are any industry standards that motherboard BIOS follows to refer to the mode of the SATA/IDE controller? AFAIK, there are 2 basic mode - native mode, where the SATA controller is well, running SATA natively, and emulation mode, where the SATA controller is emulating an IDE device, i.e. the SATA drive will appear as an IDE device to the OS. However, there seems to be so many ways of referring to them in various motherboard BIOS, such as:
Combined mode(IDE/SATA both in a single PCI function)
Native(native SATA)
RAID(native SATA with RAID functionality)
AHCI(native SATA)
Emulated(emulated IDE)
IDE(emulated IDE)
etc...

Just wondering if there's some reference somewhere that documents which vendors make use of which terms for which modes? It's kinda confusing...

Thanks!
 
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