Yep...recently I passed along the statement that " The only stupid question is the one that you don't ask".

Well, here goes.

I keep reading that sata hdd's need drivers installed from a floppy or usb stick...etc. Now, I have ( have had from the beginning), a sata hdd and when I built my system, I didn't do that...wasn't asked for the drivers or anything.

Is it just some boards that require that, or what?

My bios is set to auto detect sata drives. so is that why I didn't have to install drivers?

Everytime that I read a thread about sata hdd's and the need to load drivers from a floppy, I always wonder about my situation.

Is it possible for a sata hdd to be run like an ide hdd...in other word, at ide speeds and performance levels?

So...these are my "stupid" questions....