Most current motherboards (MOBOs ... of the computer system using a SATA storage controller. SATA hard drives can operate in a backward-compatible PATA/IDE mode, a standard AHCI mode, or vendor ...

I did not see any of the drives being recognized in the bios. I am beginning to think that there might be a problem with the IDE controller. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

On first glance, the Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H motherboard's layout is ... turned to JMicron to provide combined SATA/PATA support with its JMB361 controller, and you can see the PATA port sensibly ...

You can also see the JMicron PATA controller to the very right and just below it the Fox One microprocessor that's designed to make BIOS tweaking easy. Handy, colour-coded motherboard-to-case pins ...

The motherboard natively<BR>features 6 SATA 300 channels but no IDE channels. There is a 3rd party IDE controller (Jmicron) built onboard. The hard drive will be SATA, the optical drive will be IDE.

The JMB363 provides the two ports for eSATA and the one PATA port. The most unusual choice is the integration of the VIA VT6308P PCI firewire-controller instead of it's PCIe pendant. The SATA ...

SATA replaced the parallel ATA standard. PATA devices used a wide ribbon that would connect two devices to the motherboard, while SATA replaces the ribbon with a seven-pin wire-like ribbon that ...

The Asus P7P55-M is a mid-range P55 motherboard sporting some ... P55 can be seen as a good thing but no PATA channels means ASUS has to add a VIA controller so we can still use our PATA optical ...

The controller also adds Hot-Swap capability along with staggered spin-up functionality to reduce power draw on initial startup. The parallel PATA controller offers two IDE connections supporting ...

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the ...

The only thing we don't like is the missing debug LED. We could have easily passed on the PATA, floppy ports and the super I/O controller, The VRM is an analog 6-phase design and as expected it ...