RE: PATA to SATA upgrade advice

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1st,SATA drives have no jumpers,2nd,to use the drive plug into the intel
controller(yes 875 supports SATA and RAID),youll need the drivers on a floppy
to install xp if thats where youre going,intel downloads,chipset,chipset
software,
application accelerator,locate the floppy software(either version is
ok),3rd,forget
wdc software for cloning or mirroring,3rd party software is the only way,if
it
even works,none really do with SATA drives IDE is totally diffrent.Once you
boot to xp cd,press F6 to install drivers,then onward to install xp.

"Steve Campbell" wrote:

> Hi I have a desktop with an Intel 875P chipset, as far as I can tell this
> already has a SATA driver loaded, is this correct?
> If so would I be able to install a Western Digital WD740GD 10K Raptor
> without a driver upgrade? If so I presume I could buy a cheaper OEM drive
> rather than the retail version?
> Could I copy the PATA to the SATA, use the SATA as the boot drive and keep
> the PATA as a second drive in JBOD configuration?
> Sorry I know thats a whole bunch of Q's, if anyone could give advice before
> this expensive purchase I'd appreciate it.
> Steve.
.

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