I think there should be a law. If you're going to sell a motherboard with SATA, and if WinXP still doesn't support SATA without a floppy, then dammit, pack a floppy with your board!
The only reason you'd need a floppy with a DQ965GF is to set up a RAID on the SATA controller, correct me if I'm wrong. If the drives are PATA they're running on the legacy EIDE interface. You can't run a PATA drive on a SATA interface. There are six SATA connectors on this board, and one PATA connector. It sounds like you need to connect to the correct interface with SATA drives. No floppy is necessary for that. If you're saying you're all ready running SATA drives as PATA drives I don't see how that's possible. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
