Does a SATA drive need special drivers to work?

[husker3in4]

I have an Asus P4P800. The cd it comes with has audio drivers, lan drivers, chipset drivers and RAID drivers. I installed the
first 3, but not the RAID driver because I only have 1 hard drive. Do I need to install some sort of SATA drivers to get the
max performance out of my SATA drive? Or enable something in Windows?

A little about my system:
Asus P4P800
P4 3.2E
1 gig PC3200
GF 6800 GT
160 GB SATA
IDE DVD-ROM
IDE DVD-RW
WinXP Home w/SP1

My XP cd has SP1 already installed, and it picks up my sata drive right off the bat.

Also, I also see Intel Application Accelorator, what does it do and would it make my system faster?

 

[Bob Knowlden]

You need no additional drivers for the SATA controller on the P4P800.

(If you have the Deluxe version with a third-party SATA controller added,
you might need drivers for that. I had a vanilla P4P800, so I didn't have
any additional controllers.)

The Intel "Application Accelerator" is really a set of IDE drivers. The only
version compatible with the P4P800 is a set of RAID drivers (RAID 0,
striping, or RAID 1, mirroring). They are of no use unless you wish to add a
second SATA drive and use RAID.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[Pete D]

I noted a performance increase on a SATA drive when I enabled enhanced in
BIOS for both PATA and SATA.