Re: SATA Driver and XP Pro installation
From: AndrewP (andrewportess_at_nospamforme.hotmail.com)
Date: 01/30/05
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:21:46 -0000
You need to install SATA drivers and you need to hit F6 in order to do so;
XP will not recognize the SATA drive and does not have any drivres for SATA
drives that it can install during the XP installation routine. I have
installed XP on a number of systems with SATA drives now and have not once
been able to install XP without hitting F6; how do I know - because I often
leave the installation to do its own thing and then come back to find it
stalling as didn't install the SATA drivers etc.
Another point is that the drivers often need to be in a particular set up on
the floppy; i.e.e some drives in the root directory of the floppy and some
in a folder named as directed by the readme.txt file that accompanies them.
I downloaded my SATA drives from the drive manufacturers website.
Andy
"Simon McDonald" <simon@mcdonaldz11.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Andrew,
> Thanks for the reply. If I don't use the F6 option, and windows does use
> its 'native' Drivers, do I loose some of the SATA benefits (speed and
> integrity). Again, I am in the dark here, but I am getting the impression
> that the F6 option allows you to introduce the SATA drivers (or is that
> just for RAID/SCSI!?), allowing you to take full advantage of SATA speeds
> etc.
>
> I have to agree with Bob - the docs you get are less than informative.
> Mine walk me nicely through an NVIDA RAID configuration utility, but than
> blindly says 'install drivers at installation time' and the only link is
> to the Gigabyte Home page!
>
> On re-re-reading the docs I think I have the choice of two RAID types:
> NVIDIA RAID or Silicon Image - I think the NVIDIA RAID comes 'onboard' the
> nForce chip. Silicon Image - have not got a clue! Regardless of which,
> there is no indication of where to download the latest drivers from.
>
> Thanks for you help, if you come across anything else let me know.
>
> Simon
>
> P.S. The CPU is AMD Atholon 64 3440+
>
>
> "Andrew E." <eckrichco@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:6D763770-4FA2-4614-B48C-CD1E961A5BBA@microsoft.com...
>> With the maxtor SATA drive you'll probably need to run maxblaster from
>> the
>> floppy first,then do a low-level format,otherwise xp wont recognize the
>> drive.
>> Then boot to xp cd,select,install xp.If its not recognized then run the
>> F6
>> option.
>> The F6 option isnt needed with one drive in xp,as it'll use windows
>> native
>> drivers
>> anyway,even if F6 is installed,for detais to all
>> this,try:http://support.intel.com/
>> support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-010695.htm
>>
>> "Simon McDonald" wrote:
>>
>>> I have tried to avoid asking this, as I suspect that it is a dumb
>>> question,
>>> but I have looked high and low without finding the exact answer. I am
>>> probably fussing over nothing but if someone could advise that would be
>>> great.
>>>
>>> I am getting a new PC with the following spec, on which I will be
>>> installing
>>> XP Pro (SP2):
>>>
>>> Gigabyte K8N-S Socket 754 (Athlon64) nForce3 250
>>> 120Gb Maxtor DiamondMax DM Plus 9 S-ATA 7200rpm 8Mb Cache
>>>
>>> The question is this: I will only be using the one HDD (the SATA), so
>>> will
>>> NOT be utilising RAID. Do I have to do the 'F6' thing at the start of
>>> the XP
>>> Pro installation? If so, I cannot seem to find any appropriate drivers -
>>> there seem to be none on any of the websites for the products above
>>> (Gigabyte/Nvidia/Maxtor). I suspect I am not looking in the right place
>>> or
>>> not recognised something correctly. For instance, other Gigabyte boards
>>> do
>>> have specifically mentioned SATA Drivers mentioned and available for
>>> download (i.e the PRO version of my board has something called ITE RAID
>>> drivers and SiliconSATA RAID), but not mine.
>>>
>>> I anyone could point me in the right direction I really would be
>>> thankful -
>>> even if it only some other group to try and get the info from. I am a
>>> bit
>>> lost on this one!
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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