RD> Ed Durrant wrote:

> I would expect channel 2 and channel 3 to be the SATA connections and 
> the others to be the PATA connections, however your motherboard manual 
> will tell you.

 RD> The manual did not help, that is why I am here.  I also assumed the
 RD> last two channels are SATA, but am confused as to why the BIOS wold
 RD> call them IDE.

because IDE stands for Integrated Device Electronics (IIRC) and was called
such when the controller cards were moved to the harddrive's physical
structure instead of being seperate items like the old MFM and RLL
controller cards that you connected two cables to for each hard drive...

)\/(ark