Re: SATA RAID required?

I'm absolutely right about that. You cannot have a SATA
boot drive if you have an IDE device of any kind on the
primary IDE port. It may set up initially, but it will eventually
bring the house down. It will certainly generate software
conflicts with hardware oriented programs like PowerDVD.
It will totally sack a Hauppauge 350 install. SATA was
inititally designed for RAID backup of IDE primary boot.
Its conversion to primary boot has come about because
people kept ordering only the SATA drive, and something
had to be done. The BIOSes were originally not designed
to allow that, and they were kludged. Also, most builders
.... even the techs ... don't know how to create the floppy,
and they just go and copy what they think are the correct
drivers ... and wind up with a system running off a combo
of the Windows default drivers and the mobo chipset
drivers. That will eventually become a real mess with a
system running at the speed of a hot 386. Go and call
a mobo manufacturer tech support ( not the vendor ),
and get a talk through on the proper way to install that
stuff. It will be a real eye-opener.

johns

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