Is there maybe a BIOS setting, that the SATA pretends to be ATA? Some
Motherboards have the capability to run a "legacy mode" for certain
hardware devices. Of course, if there is a solution at the BIOS level,
it would likely work for all OS's, whether they be evil or good :)
Curtis Sloan wrote:
On Tue September 28 2004 16:58, Kevin Anderson wrote:
It gets better. So far, the "recommended" way on most forums is to install
onto a PATA drive, and then GHOST it onto the SATA drive.
I've found a thread that seems to point to some other experimental drivers
that might work... But geez...
That doesn't sound too far different than what I've heard for Linux installs
using third party-supported SATA drives (meaning there's no kernel driver for
it).
So, really, I think there's two points to be made here: one about (against?)
SATA, and one about Windows installs.
My two cents is that I don't think anyone ever said a Windows install was easy
-- just pretty. ;-) But you're right -- one of the big MS draws is supposed
to be hardware support. If the install process is going to be the same
trouble as a Linux install using the same hardware, well, why even
bother? ;-)
Curtis
Kev.
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:29, Kevin Anderson wrote:
So I'm installing XP on a brand new machine (at work).
Athlon 64 3500+, SATA Drives, etc.
The boxes don't have floppies, because we won't need them.
So I'm installing XP, and it doesn't have a driver for SATA.
and can I load it from a cdrom? NO, of course not...
This is Windows XP 64bit edition. Bleeding edge MS code.
And it can't be installed on a legacy-free system.
But thankfully, Moms and pops all over the world find that Windows is far
easier to install.?!?!?!?
I haven't heard that in a while, and now I see why.
Kev.
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