Re: Xp installed on SATA drive with ... no SATA controller !
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 09/14/04
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:26:57 +0100
Romain Pelissier wrote:
>I have a strange behaviour with XP and I am wondering if someone here has
>already saw this kind of thing.
>So here it is :
>I have an A7N8X deluxe motherboard and a SIL3112 Raid SATA controller also a
>seagate 120 Go SATA disk.
>> I have setup a new installation of XP and provided right drivers in the
>setup for the SATA controller to work and see the SATA disk
>> XP install itself fine with no problem on the SATA disk
>> then I install remaining drivers (video, chipset...)
>> then I see in device manager that the RAID controller (SATA controller I
>guess) is mark as unknow/non installed ??? strange because actually Xp has
>to use the SATA controller to install itself ...
I think the point is that XP has installed drivers that are just fine
for using a single drive (which is all you have) on the controller; but
has not installed the RAID drivers that would be needed if you were to
have two or more such drives to use in a RAID array. As you do not have
two, this does not matter: the drivers *might* come into play if you
were to install a second drive
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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