Enable sata or pata ide?

Hoping someone can refresh my memory.  In bios setup, under integrated peripherals, I have VT8237 PATA IDE controller enabled and SATA IDE disabled.  Is this correct?  I have a SATA hard drive.
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...PATA IDE always needs to be enabled, that's also for your optical drives on IDE1 or IDE2 or both...that particular SATA setting only needs to be enabled if you are using the VIA controller...

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