Disable SATA IDE?

[WazMeister]

In my bios I saw a option stating

SATA IDE or somewhere along them lines, seeing as I am not using sata but standard UDMA ATA Hard drivers I disabled it, as it was enabled.

After reboot, my MS WIN XP found my IDE drives again and stuff and installed them...

Why is this? bit random.

Should I had kept SATA IDE enabled?

[kernow]

its merely an IDE emulation mode for new SATA drives, if it works with it off, don't worry about it.

however, if you need to reinstall XP , it might not find them unless they ARE in SATA emulation mode.

[WazMeister]

oh, is it faster with them on?

[WazMeister]

Should I reinstall via 4in1 drivers now as i disable dit and XP installed older ones?

[Hohum]

If you're not using the SATA ports, then it's pointless anyway.

[kernow]

yep, like he said, ignore it.