If you do decide to put a (NON-USB) floppy drive in the system it may require you to use a single head cable (Days of annoying experience trying to get a driver loaded from floppy with prior system where the system would just not recognise floppy drives that were working perfectly in their normal PC other systems)
And do enjoy the SATA 2 speed - Please let me/us know if the external connection also runs at 300 JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Anno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:13 PM Subject: Re: Installing XP Pro on SATA hard drive > ----- Original Message ----- > 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 > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
