Re: SATA Drivers


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last year I replaced my old MOBo with a WinFast K8S755A and moved
from a PATA drive to a SATA.

During the OS installation I had to do the F6 to load the SATA
drivers. The OS being an upgrade Windows XP Home which in theory is
a full version. I seem to recall having to show it the 98 disc at
the time. The OS has been rather flaky over the last few months so I
am going
to clean install XP Pro onto the same SATA drive.

Will Pro have the SATA drivers or is this a trait of the MoBo in
question thus having to do F6 again for the drivers.

thanks
dj

Hi dj,

You "should" only need to do the F6-Install 3rd Part Drivers thang if
you intend to use RAID. If you're just using the SATA drives as you
would any IDE drives then they should be detected as normal. Try it,
I would imagine installing RAID drivers onto a non-RAID system is not
a good idea.
Hope this helps

Andy
Not always the case. I've built 2 or 3 PC's in the past where drivers
are needed just to get the SATA ports to work in IDE mode under XP. I
think it's only where the SATA ports run in native mode that you don't
need XP drivers.

SteveH


SteveH is correct, when I first installed XP on this MoBo it would not
recognise the drive until I used the drivers on a floppy........

Still I shall be trying it out on Friday........I'll let you know.

I did not need them on my other new Intel/Sata build which I mentioned in
another post.

thanks
dj

I'm not sure if it matters, but are you working with a service pack
applied copy of XP Pro? If not, you can save considerable time by
slipstreaming SP2.

Ari

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