Enabling SATA mode on SATA drives in XP

Looks like I'm currently using my SATA drives in IDE emulation mode
through the motherboard. The SATA drives appear under the "IDE ATA/ATAPI
controllers" section of Device Manager. All SATA drives appear to be
running in UDMA Mode 6 (ATA/133) at present. Question is will there be
any noticeable difference in performance if I switch them into SATA mode?

Nope.
Does this means that a SATA disk under XP is no different from a PATA disk?
Are there any significant increase in the transfer rates? SATA claims a
pretty high rates, so will this be apperent in a XP based system?

Second question, is it worth bothering under XP,

Nope.
What operating system can provide the claimed speed? Changing the
motherboard settings to accomodate SATA as it is and reinstalling a copy of
"Vista" will help?

Regards,
Abhinav

Abhinav Nishant wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Yousuf Khan wrote

Looks like I'm currently using my SATA drives in IDE emulation mode
through the motherboard. The SATA drives appear under the "IDE
ATA/ATAPI controllers" section of Device Manager. All SATA drives
appear to be running in UDMA Mode 6 (ATA/133) at present. Question
is will there be any noticeable difference in performance if I
switch them into SATA mode?

Nope.

Does this means that a SATA disk under XP is no different from a PATA disk?

Performance wise, yes.

Are there any significant increase in the transfer rates?

Nope, thats determined by the physical detail of the drive, sectors per track and rotation rate.

SATA claims a pretty high rates,

That is just the rate over the cable, thats always much higher than
what the drive can physically do. What the drive can physically do
is determined by the rate the sectors move under the heads, and
so the rotation rate and sectors per track.

so will this be apperent in a XP based system?

It isnt seen on any system.

Second question, is it worth bothering under XP,

Nope.

What operating system can provide the claimed speed?

None, zero, nada, ziltch.

Changing the motherboard settings to accomodate SATA as it is and reinstalling a copy of "Vista" will help?

Nope.

SATA claims a pretty high rates,

That is just the rate over the cable, thats always much higher than
what the drive can physically do. What the drive can physically do
is determined by the rate the sectors move under the heads, and
so the rotation rate and sectors per track.

Any advantage of using a SATA disk?

Abhinav Nishant wrote

SATA claims a pretty high rates,

That is just the rate over the cable, thats always much higher than
what the drive can physically do. What the drive can physically do
is determined by the rate the sectors move under the heads, and
so the rotation rate and sectors per track.

Any advantage of using a SATA disk?

Likely to be more useful in a future system. Plenty of current
motherboards only have a couple of PATA ports now and
you normally want to use those for DVD drives.