How should SATA drive appear, in UDMA terms?

Hello all.
I've got a Seagate 7200.7 on the Intel controller of my board, which under Device manager in XP shows up as UDMA 5. Sisoft Sandra 2004 complains that it should be UDMA 6.
I don't know what to expect from the SATA interface, and the Seagate website doesn't mention UDMA properties for the drive at all.
But presumably, an increase in theoretical maximum bandwidth of 30 M/s, or whatever it is, is academic when the drive's nowhere near the limit of the transfer protocol.
Am I right? Shoud I worry about this at all?
Any feedback gratefully received.

Tell you what, I won't worry about it then.
pbarata, I've never had the kind of problems you describe. Sounds like the whole system is hanging up if the mouse sticks. Bizarre, but I've no idea why I'm afraid. Incidentally, I'm using the IDE controller in combined (legacy) mode because I'm running 98SE as well, and 98 can't see the extra interrupts, so it won't work with Native mode. I just have my DVD ROM and CD-writer on IDE1, and IDE0 is the SATA. Works fine, it's just that you can't use the other PATA connector, but as there's the Promise controller, it doesn't really matter.
Thanks for your feedback.

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