Nope. You need a driver (it's working now), and there IS no way of loading it other than from a floppy. Not from CD/DVD, Not from HDD, not from USB. Floppy or nothing.
On the up side, at least this discourages those increasingly common 10+ meg drivers... Kev. On Wednesday 29 September 2004 12:45, Niels Voll wrote: > 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. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >clug-talk mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
