I think the BIOS is enabling PATA for some other reason than your hard
drives. The SATA controllers are what are determining disk operations.
Obviously, if the drives are not connected to an IDE controller then the
PATA setting cannot matter to the hard drives transfers.
"inlivingcolour" <inlivingcolour.34xuh1@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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> I have 3 internal hdd's. Two Western Digital 500gb drives and one
> Maxtor 400gb drive. All three are SATA II. I just realized my BIOS are
> setup to run them as IDE. Should I be running them on SATA through the
> BIOS? Is there a speed difference between running them on IDE settings
> or SATA settings in the BIOS?
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> inlivingcolour