A7N8X Deluxe SATA Drive Q

[Chestum]

Just pruchased the A7N8X Deluxe MB and need to know if I can run a SATA
Drive as my master drive and have regular IDE drives as my alternate drives.

 

[Ben Pope]

Just pruchased the A7N8X Deluxe MB and need to know if I can run a SATA
Drive as my master drive and have regular IDE drives as my alternate
drives.

Any SATA drive is "master".

Do you mean you would like to boot from it?

If so, you will require an active partition on said drive and inthe BIOS set
boot device to SCSI (bad name) before any other suitable bootable device (so
I have CD, floppy, SCSI, HDD0 or whatever, with no bootable CDs or floppies
in the drives.)

Ben

 

[Chestum]

Thats what i needed to know, gonna boot from the SATA. Thanks

 

[markjen]

If so, you will require an active partition on said drive and inthe BIOS
set

boot device to SCSI (bad name) before any other suitable bootable device (so
I have CD, floppy, SCSI, HDD0 or whatever, with no bootable CDs or floppies
in the drives.)

Ben, I was booting succesfully from an SATA drive using HDD0 as the
specified boot device in the BIOS with the SATA drive the only one in the
system. I recall that SCSI in the BIOS worked also. So if you only have a
single SATA as the boot disk, I think you can use either. If you have both,
dunno.

- Mark

 

[Ben Pope]

Ben, I was booting succesfully from an SATA drive using HDD0 as the
specified boot device in the BIOS with the SATA drive the only one in the
system. I recall that SCSI in the BIOS worked also. So if you only have
a single SATA as the boot disk, I think you can use either. If you have
both, dunno.

If you don;t have a suitable active or bootable partition on HDD0, then it
will continue looking for devices... you sure SCSI wasn't mentioned in the
list later?

I am a little confused as to whether the SATA drive is somehow emulated as a
normal ATA drive - there seem to be reports of drive behaviour as if this
were so, but since you can't install windows without the driver, I don't
think this is the case. It would however, explain why you could boot off of
the SATA drive as if it were a normal ATA drive. Time for some
experimentation I feel.

Ben

 

[markjen]

If you don;t have a suitable active or bootable partition on HDD0, then it

will continue looking for devices... you sure SCSI wasn't mentioned in the
list later?

It would boot a lone SATA with (floppy - CD - HDD0) but I recall that there
was an additional BIOS option enabled called "Boot Other Device" so perhaps
it was getting the SATA drive from there.

I am a little confused as to whether the SATA drive is somehow emulated as a
normal ATA drive - there seem to be reports of drive behaviour as if this
were so, but since you can't install windows without the driver, I don't
think this is the case. It would however, explain why you could boot off of
the SATA drive as if it were a normal ATA drive. Time for some
experimentation I feel.

I'll have both SATA and IDE bootable devices on my computer shortly and will
try some different combos.

- Mark

 

[edde]

Yes