Can you help me understand my SATA/RAID options?
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I've a gigabyte GA-M720-US3 motherboard. Recently, I noticed the following during boot:
IDE channel 0 Master (none)
IDE channel 0 Slave (none)
IDE channel 2 Master (my hdd)
IDE channel 2 Slave (my dvd drive)
IDE channel 3 Master (none)
IDE channel 3 Slave (none)
Of course, the same information is contained in the BIOS/CMOS. The HDD is connected to the mobo via a SATA(2?) cable at the port(?) labeled SATA2_0. The DVD drive is connected by a similar cable at SATA2_1.
Why doesn't the information displayed during the boot and in BIOS reflect how I plugged the cables in? I mean, why "none" for channel 0 when there is something in SATA2_0. (or is that serious naivete on my part!?)
Where's Channel 1 master and slave?
Since these are SATA cables and not the IDE ribbons from a time ago, why the whole master/slave declaration during boot and in BIOS?
Should my BIOS reflect the fact that these are SATA cables? I mean, in BIOS, should the "Onchip SATA mode IDE" be set to RAID or AHCI instead of IDE?
Any replies, answers, suggestions, links, tips will be much appreciated. Thank you in advance!
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