All my worry was for nothing. I set the SATA to IDE mode in the BIOS and
WinXP installed without a hitch, and without using F6 for RAID drivers. Once
Windows was installed, I loaded the chipset drivers which installed the SATA
drivers for the hard drive. System is running great. Core2 Duo E6600 2.4
GHz, on Asus P5B, 2 GB Corsair 677 MHz DDR2, 320MB Seagate SATA HD, all in a
beautiful all aluminum Lian Li case.
The external SATA connector does not run on the Intel P965 chipset, it is on
a JMicron chip connector installed by the motherboard mfg. to accommodate
the IDE connector (for optical drive) and RAID. It is supposed to run at
300, but I don't know for sure - not using.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Button" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Installing XP Pro on SATA hard drive
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
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