Re: flash replacing hard disks?

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:26:39 GMT, "nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<mygarbage2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

The Intel and nVidia controllers have a fallback mode which emulates a
standard IDE controller on their second generation of SATA controllers
(the i865/i875 series of SATA controllers did require drivers as I
recall). I wouldn't be surprised if VIA has done this as well with
their current SATA controller.

Note that sometimes this might require setting some option in the BIOS
for it to work though.

Ohh, and as GSV mentioned there are also some differences depending on
what version/service pack of Windows you are installing. WinXP SP2
definitely has some differences from SP1 or the original XP in this
regard, though I can't remember all of the specifics.

-------------
Tony Hill
hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca
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