How to use SATA controller instead of IDE

rspahn · Post by **rspahn** » 14. Jan 2009, 19:44

I have a Host Vista Ultimate 64-bit running on SATA drives that use the Dell SAS 5/iR Integrated Controller. I can't seem to get the guest OS to see the hard drive if I select SATA hard disk when creating a new disk - it has to be the IDE Primary Master. Can anyone get me started? The only IDE in this machine runs the DVD+R/RW. Thanks.

Post by **baf** » 14. Jan 2009, 20:26

Your physical disk controller(s) does not matter. The guest only sees a virtual one.
Proplem is probably missing drivers for an ahci controller in the guest but as you don't say what your guest is we can only guess.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 15. Jan 2009, 00:21

For the Guest, you need to make sure that it supports the Intel ICH8M Controller. XP does not have a driver for it by default.