See IDE or AHCI mode from Windows?

[ricno]

I have set my system to use AHCI and it works great, but I wonder if there is possible to see the mode actually used from inside Windows and not only from BIOS? That is, how can I check this on other computers without a reboot and entering the BIOS setup.

 

[4745454b]

Device manager. Find the IDE/ATA ATAPI controller and see if its using an IDE or AHCI driver.

 

[ricno]

Device manager. Find the IDE/ATA ATAPI controller and see if its using an IDE or AHCI driver.

Thank you for your reply.

This is what I see in Device Manager. There is quite a lot of ATA controllers, so how should I really know which one is used? (If not knowing the setting in BIOS.)

 

[4745454b]

Look at that screen shot you are using AHCI. One of those sata controllers provides two sata ports (0 and 1), one provides 6 ports (0 - 6) and the IDE controller which provides another 2 (0 and 1). I'm not using any ACHI on my computer, and all I have is the standard dual channel PCI IDE controller.