SATA optical drive on Dimension 9150

The original GWA4164B drive that Dell was delivering with these
Dimensions desktops is quite unreliable.
Now I have replaced it with a Samsung TSST SH-S223C connected to one
of the SATA connectors on the motherboard.
It works OK, but I have to press F1 after each WindowsXP-boot. BIOS
reports that a PATAdrive is missing.
I cannot 'tell' the BIOS that the drive is SATA.
However, the drive appears as it should in XP's device manager.
I hope there is some way to fix this annoyance...?

paul8,

In the BIOS, turn ON the SATA port and turn OFF the PATA entry.

On 24 Mar., 07:37, "Brian K" <bjk444_remo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> paul8,
>
> In the BIOS, turn ON the SATA port and turn OFF the PATA entry.

Thanks.
Problem solved.
(It was obvious. But with 3 sata drives and 4 unmarked connectors it
took me some time to find the right connector... )

Glad I could help. I have the same computer and I've been caught with the
ON/OFF stuff.