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From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Installing XP Pro on SATA hard drive
At 02:55 PM 10/21/2006, Kylde typed:
I may be wrong, but isn't the original OP's question "if I need to
install sata boot/driver floppies during an xp install, how can I when I
have no floppy drive and no SATA drivers supplied"? Am I misreading this
thread ?
I thought he just meant there was no floppy [disk].
I never got the impression there was no floppy drive or SATA drivers.
I've been doing some more research and I think I can clarify and have an
answer. First of all, I do not plan to put a floppy drive in the new
machine, but have one that could be used if the F6 thing was required. I
found that the CD supplied with the board has a makedisk utility for putting
the RAID drivers on a floppy. There was no mention of SATA drivers.
But the answer I found on Intel's site in FAQs about the P965 chipset. The
BIOS of the motherboard has a configuration setting for SATA Mode: IDE,
SATA, or RAID. I think this statement from Intel is my answer:
. IDE mode uses a native Microsoft* driver and does not require the F6
installation method.
. SATA and RAID mode both use the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager and
require the F6 installation method.
So I hope this is what will happen when I set up the new system.
Thanks for your help.
Jim
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