Re: flash replacing hard disks?

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:28:14 -0400, Tony Hill
<hilla_nospam_20@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:19:48 GMT, "nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx"
><mygarbage2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>
>>Might help for BIOS flash. But when you try installing NT/2k/XP/2k3
>>on a SATA/SCSI drive you have no chance to substitute CD for a floppy.
>
>Actually the newer nForce3 and nForce4 chipsets, as well as Intel's
>i9xx series of chipsets, do not require any special drivers to install
>WinXP/Win2K3 at the least. I don't know about WinNT 4.0 (bleah!) or
>Win2K, though I suspect they should work fine too. Load up the OS in
>a legacy mode that emulates standard IDE then load your drivers within
>Windows to get access to the performance features of the SATA drive.
>
>As far as I know it's really only the first generation of SATA
>controllers that REQUIRED special drivers before they would work at
>all.
>
>-------------
>Tony Hill
>hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca

VIA SATA controller (vt800 chipset) surely requires - checked with
both 2k and XP. Same for a few less common SCSI cards (not plain
vanilla Adaptec). Either NVDA and INTC did their homework better
(work with regular IDE driver) or MSFT decides which drivers are
included in Setup and which have to be loaded from A:\.

.

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