P31 Neo V2 , confused by SATA/IDE? SATA drive seemingly using UDMA 5?

HI guys. I am a little confused after using slipstreamed SATA drivers to install XP Pro SP3 on my new PC and a SATA 2 500gb drive.
When I look in device manager I dont see any SCSI controllers at all, under IDE controller I see ICH7 SATA and ICH7 UDMA drivers AND TWO primary IDE channels and TWO secondary channels.
When I look into the chanels, I only have 2 items attached (correct), one IDE DVD drive using one of the primary channels at UDMA 4 and the SATA 2 500 GB which is seemingly using the other primary IDE and running at UDMA 5!
How can I get the 500gb SATA 2 drive to use the SATA 2 - 3gb channel which is advertised for the board? At the moment it seems to be using IDE compatibility mode and I cant get it to move over to SATA whatever I do. The board has no AHCI option in the bios, only SATA on/off, IDE on/off. The default is both on, and thats how I installed windows XP.
Have I been conned when it said SATA 3gb capable?

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If none are needed then none will be used
I know. That is why I said it was unnecessary for this mainboard (none of the drivers are needed).
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IS he wrong?
Not entirely. Part of your statement in that forum was wrong. This part of your comment was correct:
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that its meant to be that way.
But this one wasn't:
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SATA is a form of IDE apparantly
SATA is not really a "form of IDE" (I never told you that and that user is right when he says "thats not correct"). The IDE/Legacy Mode is an operating mode of the SATA Controller which will allow Windows to handle SATA Drives as IDE Devices (for maximum plug&play compatibility). It does not mean that the SATA Drives operate as IDE Devices (or are IDE devices).
And this is what that user said as well:
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because your mainboard has Legacy modus enabled for the SATA controler/ports
There is no contradiction here. And to be more precise: The SATA Controller of the ICH7 Southbridge only supports IDE/Legacy Mode, so there is no way to put it into any other operating mode (AHCI or RAID).
I will attach a screenshot of my Device Manager (I use the German Version of XP, but you will find the important information anyway). I use a P45 Platinum. The SATA Controller integrated into the ICH10R Southbridge is currently running in IDE/Legacy Mode. My SATA-II HD is listed as being attached to the one of the Secondary IDE Channels. As you can see, Windows shows "UDMA 5".
I have used this drive on a number of Intel Boards (975X/ICH7DH Chipset, P35 Platinum/ICH9R Chipset, P965 Neo Combo/ICH8 Chipset). Whenever the SATA Controller is set to IDE/Legacy Mode, Windows will report IDE Channels and "UDMA 5". It is a side effect of the IDE/Legacy Mode (for which no SATA Drivers exist (at least not for Intel Chipsets) and no descriptive value whatsoever. This is basically the price you pay for such a plug & play compatibility mode (make Windows believe it is an IDE Drive), but it does not mean the drive is not operating within in specifications of SATA-II.

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Quote from: Fredrik on 20-December-09, 09:15:08
Perhaps it got damaged during the move. Have you tested it in your other system lately?
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OK im running an Neo4 Platinum SLI MB and i have 2 Western Digital Raptors hooked up in raid 0 array and everything works fine, Now when i try to hook up my old IDE Maxtor Dimondmax 250gb Hard drive it wont be detected in windows. Do the jumpers need to be changed on all the drives? Am i missing a setting in the bios I tried changing the maxtors jumpers to slave or master and either way made no differance.
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Quote from: Bas on 03-January-10, 23:20:21
What PIO bug?
There used to be a problem with Win2K, but that has nothing to do with the controller used, this was Win2K going wrong and that was fixed in SP1 or 2, forgot the exact one.
There fix should be in included in SP3 or SP4 (which i use). I saw couple of Microsoft posts how to deal with that. However, I found many postings in the web with the problem and very often the Microsoft fixed did not work too. I have been trying workarounds for a couple of days now. For some guys another driver did the job (e.g. some "SATA" driver, but I did not find a case with a SB700 chipset.)
Quote from: Bas on 03-January-10, 23:20:21
However, when putting the controller in RAID is doesn't use the normal IDE way but it uses SCSI (mini-port) way.
There are no drivers for Win2K, so use IDE mode or XP, btw AHCI in XP is fairly unstable too but that's an XP problem.
But you only have 1 drive, so why bother with RAID or ACHI? IDE-mode is faster anyway.
I agree. RAID/AHCI would have been a workaround for the slow IDE only.
Quote from: Bas on 03-January-10, 23:20:21
Set the controller in IDE mode and use the Microsoft drivers! as there are no specific Win2k drivers.
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I am not sure I am phrasing the question correctly, so bear with me. I have a K8N Neo4 platinum with the SiI3114 controller and sata ports 4-8 (I believe its what they are calling PCB 1.x) with bios v1.D. I moved the board to another box and installed winXP on it. I was running it with IDE hard drives. Everything was working great but the OS was running really slow so I bought a SATA 300 mb/s drive and pluged it into SATA1 (I read about using ports 3 and 4 for raid but I do not want to use the NVraid at all, it is disabled). Then I proceeded to reinstall win XP. In the setup, I deleted the original C partiton and created one on the sata drive and rebooted so that there would be no "C" drive confusion by the winxp setup (have had that problem before and this keeps it from happening). Went through the setup and the sata was correctly reported as "C". Told windows to install itself there but it told me that it needed to write to MBR on the old c drive but that, since I had deleted the partiton, it couldn't and had to format it. So I knew that something was wrong.
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Quote from: Maesus on 15-September-06, 13:29:01
Vinz, this board is very straight forward. There is no RAID on this board. You may read the P4 Unoffiical Guide on the SATA + PATA setup for the details.
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I have run Sandra to get details of the drives etc and check the windows manager to see what drivers are being used for the hard drive and DVDRW drive
The Samsung drive is using the Intel Raid drivers (checked via device manager) and is reported as being in UDMA 6 (although UDMA 7 is supported reported via Sandra). Speed tests of the hard drive seem to match the standard SATA 300 drive held in Sandra data base.
The DVD is using the standard windows IDE drives in single and dual mode. It is not using the Intel drivers.
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1. On board raid controller
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(2.2 I know is caused by the fact that I set up the drive as a RAID drive during windows set up so no problem there.)
Please can someone tell me what should the correct bios settings be for 1 no. SATA 300 hard drive and 1 no. IDE DVDROM and what drivers ideally should windows being using. The various RAID and IDE settings are very confusing.
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Also, are people still having problems running these hard drives on their motherboards?? (K8N Neo & Neo2) - or do all new "DiamondMax Plus 10" hard drives come with the updated BIOS?? (My motherboard BIOS is 1.4 - It is very very stable so I do not want to upgrade this).
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1. I have no idea.
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Secondary IDE Channel: Western Digital 7200RPM 160GB HDD
OS: Windows XP SP1
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