Interesting (to me that is ) If you need drivers installed to boot from a SATA drive, and the BIOS cannot? see the SATA drive,
Where do the drivers get stored, Or is it just that the BIOS is not showing the SATA IDE drive in the same way as it shows the PATA connected IDE drives Or - are they on the Master PATA IDE drive on the first PATA IDE channel in which case if the PATA IDE's are disconnected, will the system boot from the SATA IDE drive Also are the PATA IDE channels actually 0 and 1 with the drives connected as 0 and/or 1 on each of those cables as indicated by the addresses in the boot.ini and - what are the address codes for your SATA IDE drive boot partition and where is that boot.ini and ntldr JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "McPeak, Harry D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:04 PM Subject: Re: SATA Question On my ASUS MB, running XP w/ auto update. Athlon 64 +3000 CPU SATA II is boot drive 2 IDE HD on IDE 1 2 DVD on IDE 2 USB IDE HD for backup FWIW, 3½ diskette on floppy cable boots to SATA based on boot sequence in BIOS I didn't have any trouble loading the SATA drivers while installing XP, just don't understand why the BIOS doesn't "see" the SATA drive. But, I don't understand how this stuff really works anyway. It was just a surprise to me that a 2006 MB needed drivers to see what I understand to be current technology HD. Harry -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
