Re: Making a SATA drive the boot drive
From: John R Weiss (jrweiss98155_at_NOSPAM.comcast.net)
Date: 12/17/04
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:09:39 -0800
"BobV" <robowa@comcast.net> wrote...
>
>> Instead, you need to press F6 early in the XP installation
>
> I am doing this
>>
>> But, before you even think about installing XP, you need to determine whether
>> the SATA controller is also a RAID contoller. My ASUS P4S8X has a combined
>> RAID/SATA controller. So, I first needed to make a "RAID array".
>
> This is difficult to tell, but I think it is a combined RAID/SATA controller.
> I see no way to make a RAID array with only one disk. There is no option to
> make a custom RAID array. The ASUS manual is no help at all.
I believe you still have to "initialize" or "define" the SATA array using the
RAID controller BIOS. Check your motherboard and/or controller documentation
for the info on how to do it for a single HD. If you don't have the docs, and
there are no auto-configure or single-HD options apparent, experiment a bit and
set it for RAID 0. My Promise SATA controller docs say a "striped" array can be
created with 1, 2, 3, or HDs.
Also, depending on your motherboard BIOS, you may have to set your IDE HD as
Slave instead of Master to allow the SATA HD to boot.
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