Where's Intel SATA controller gone?

Hello all,
Here's my system:
Intel Pentium 4 C - 3.0 GHz
MSI Mainboard - 875P NEO FIS2R (BIOS 1.9)
1,024 MB DDR400 RAM (2 modules of 512 MB)
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
80.0 GB Seagate Barracuda UATA HDD (7200.2)
40.0 GB Western Digital UATA HDD (7200.2)
40.0 GB Seagate Barracuda UATA HDD on Promise RAID (7200.2)
Creative SoundBlaster Live 5.1
Cambridge SoundWorks 5.1 Surround
Liteon DVD / LG CD-Writer
Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 1A)
DirectX 9.0b
ATI Drivers 3.10 Catalyst
As you can see that I haven't got a SATA hard drive and was thinking of getting one. But the problem is that I don't see the Intel SATA controller in Windows Device Manager as the manual states. Under "SCSI and RAID controllers" I have "WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378" and under "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" I see "Intel(R) 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers, Primary IDE Channel and Secondary IDE Channel". Also, I don't see any bootup BIOS for the Intel onboard controller. Is there some setting in the BIOS that turns on the Intel SATA controller? And oh, one more thing. I can't install the Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition too. It exits displaying the following message "Incompatible hardware. This software is not supported on this chipset ... " I mean, is that software not designed for the 875P chipset ?
Now, I've read everywhere about SATA drives and am really thinking of getting one. I would just like to know what brand and capacity would be a good purchase. Thanks for all the help.
Regards,
Kamran

The SATA controller is transparent. It is the same controller used to deal with the drives on IDE1 and IDE2.
Read P4 Neo Unofficial Guide for information on configuring for SATA drives, including raid.
The SATA drives are available in pretty much the same sizes as PATA drives, since they are pretty much all PATA drives with built in SATA/PATA convertors.

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Asmedia SATA Controller Update Problem

I have the Z77A- GD65 Gaming board which has two Intel SATA 6 GB/s ports and two Asmedia 6 GB/s ports. I have two mechanical drives in a RAID 0 array connected to the Intel ports and my Samsung SSD. which is also the OS drive, is connected to one of the Asmedia ports. Everything was working fine until today when I installed an updated driver for the Asmedia controller from the download site for my board. After I did that the Samsung software for the SSD indicated that AHCI had been disabled, and when I checked HWiNFO it also did not appear to be reading the drive info correctly.
There is no doubt the drive is running in AHCI mode. It isn't compatible with any other mode and there are no problems in terms of the drive's operation.I tried rolling back to the previous version and the problem went away. When I looked in Device Manager I discovered that the previous driver, when installed, is listed under IDE ATA/ATAPI, but when I install the updated driver it's listed under Storage Controllers and there is no longer any listing for IDE ATA/ATAPI devices. So it appears to be a fundamentally different type of driver.
I'm wondering if anyone has encountered a problem like this before and knows how to fix it so the new driver gets listed as an IDE ATA/ATAPI device and not a storage controller ? Thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks for the reply, the problem is that previously Asmedia installed a driver called asachi64.sys. Now the install package contains that driver and another driver, asstor.sys. With asahci64 installed the system recognizes it as an IDE ATA/ATAPI device, with asstor.sys, the system recognizes it as a generic controller, as indicated in your screenshot. Although there's an updated version of the asachi driver in the new install package it doesn't work. And because the new driver is a generic controller the system does not recognize the drive as having achi enabled, although it is.
The SSD software is Samsung Magician.http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/samsungssd/downloads.html. In order for it to work properly the drive has to have ahci enabled, and that means having an achi driver installed, not a generic controller. Although the new Asmedia package contains an updated achi driver there's no way to install it. The package has two entirely different drivers but installs one by default and has no explanation how you install and enable the other one.

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