no sata in vista64 for nforce4?

[AltecXP]

all of my drive work right but everything says they are using dma5 nothing says sata.

any ideas? i also have 2 unknown divices i cant id.

[AltecXP]

No help? :(

[betasp]

Have you searched Nvidia's site for drivers?

[mark_st]

all of my drive work right but everything says they are using dma5 nothing says sata.

any ideas? i also have 2 unknown divices i cant id.

Thats strange, but of my 2-WD SATAII drives showed up just fine...

[-Dave-]

u have to manually update the SATA from the latest package if that helps :p

[AltecXP]

i tried, i get nothing

[AltecXP]

Well the drvers are installed but everything is PIO mode...

[AltecXP]

I dont like my drive having a 9MB limit...help please? lol

[SBeaver]

nvidias new vista driver are broken.

If you install the sata drivers from their package manually you get PIO mode which equals zero performance and 100% cpu usage.

Roll back the drivers to the ones that came with vista, it's supposed to say dma5-dma6 or whatever.

Maybe some day nvidia will release a driver for nf4 that is better than the one supplied with vista, but I doubt it.

[AltecXP]

Thanks for the info.

[mark_st]

Thats strange, but of my 2-WD SATAII drives showed up just fine...

Well actually they show up as 2-WD250 ATA drives and a WD40 ATA drive. The 250's are SATA drives and the 40 is an old 40 gig drive. I assume they are showing up correctly, since they work fine. Also with or without the lastest forceware Nforce 4 drives they still show up the same. If I remember correctly under XP the SATA drives were removeable. Ideas...

[OPaul]

How do I tell if my SATA drive is running in the correct mode?

[qkslvr221]

I had a similar issue, I manually updated two of the "Dual channel PCI IDE Controller" drivers to SATA controllers. I am using 1 ATA and 1 SATA drive. The ATA is now running fine and being detected as such, however the SATA is showing as a SCSI device and runs in PIO mode. Try manually updating the IDE controllers to SATA ones with the new nforce drivers.