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"Enhanced SATA" is basically a workaround for no AHCI support
« on: December 22, 2023, 11:07:21 AM »
talking about the "Enhanced Sata" legacy Bios options on motherboards from late 2000s

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"Enhanced/SATA" allows you to map SATA devices to IDE, so operating systems without AHCI support can still make use of the disks. SATA+PATA usually means that SATA is mapped to primary IDE, while PATA is mapped to secondary IDE
« Last Edit: December 23, 2023, 01:07:39 AM by chrisNova777 »