Do I need drivers for a SATA drive?

[m.marien]

I installed a SATA drive in a K8N deluxe (with a SATA driver), installed
Windows and later installed an IDE drive. The Bios automatically set that
IDE drive as the boot drive (so I couldn't boot anymore)... Then I found an
option in the BIOS to make the SATA drive the first drive again. That's
another option then the boot sequence!

I purposely added a PATA drive and made it the boot drive because the
Promise took forever to boot (K8V Deluxe). I also have to fiddle with the
GRUB and Windows boot files because the order of the drives changed, but it
was worth it. I guess had I looked a little closer I could have kept the
SATA as the first drive but booted from the PATA? I thought it was to boot
order that dictated the order of the drives.

 

[P4-3Giger]

I'm building a new system using the K8N-E Deluxe motherboard. I am
considering buying a SATA drive (not planning on using it in any RAID
configuration).
Do I hear correctly that I will need to install Windows drivers in order to
get the drive to work?
This might seem like a dumb question but how would I load Windows onto a
blank drive if the drive won't work without having the drivers installed?
Someone told me this is the reason I will still need to have a floppy drive
on my system. I'm not really sure that makes sense.

Thanks, John

 

[Courseyauto]

I'm building a new system using the K8N-E Deluxe motherboard. I am
considering buying a SATA drive (not planning on using it in any RAID
configuration).
Do I hear correctly that I will need to install Windows drivers in order to
get the drive to work?
This might seem like a dumb question but how would I load Windows onto a
blank drive if the drive won't work without having the drivers installed?
Someone told me this is the reason I will still need to have a floppy drive
on my system. I'm not really sure that makes sense.

Thanks, John

Because windows loads the driver while it loads all the other drivers at the
beginning of the install,when you press F6.

 

[Martin]

Well, it was my fathers PC... so after he screwed it up in record time I had
to install it again. This time without the F6 and... it worked perfectly!
The drive got recognised without any problem, using the Nvidia controller.
Don't know if that would also work with the Promise controller though.