Host adapters used by Pentium 4 478 motherboards

[kakii]

Recently I had to experience a total damage of my motherboard.
Board is based on SiS 655TX + 964 chipset.
Current windows installation runs on S-ATA drive.

Thanks to Asus I can again use my system without new investments
and system new installation.
During the crash I had to imagine that it would be difficult to get Asus
P4S800D-E Dlx based system working again if motherboard had to be
replaced. There are very few offers for this board on second-hand market.
Replacement of any other component in this system is significant
less complicated as for the motherboard.
Within the next 5 years I can't invest time/money/energy neither in
purchasing of new hardware nor in software new installation.

Therefore I'm considering to complete a backup configuration for my
windows installation.
For this purpose the windows installation should be prepared for
all SATA host adapters to be found on P4 FSB500/800 Socket 478 mainboards.
My research results in following findings:
Intel ICH5
Intel ICH6
SiS 964 (already supported by this windows installation)
SiS 180 (already supported by this windows installation)
Promise 20378 RAID
Silicon Image PCI 3x12 family
ULI M1573
VIA 8237R Plus
VIA VT8237
ATi IXP SB300

Is this list complete ?
Do you know some other S-ATA controllers to be met on P4 478 533/800
systems ?
Any other families of Silicon Image, ULi, VIA, ATI or Promise ?

Next step will be investigation of driver type (intelide, pciide,
atapiide,...) the particular vendor is using for his AHCPI adapter. Do
you have any hints regarding this question ?


Procedure as described for mergeide.reg will be applied.
But not with the original mergeide file, because that one is not up to date.
Mergeide.reg prepared by oneself and supporting SATA controllers
mentioned above will be used instead.

 

[sgopus]

So you had to experience this?? did someone force it on you??

I would suggest you do some research on slipstreaming all your necessary
drivers for sata controller within your existing xp version, and include
making an image or your install, or clone it. therefore when replacing major
hardware ie motherboard, all that should be necessary is a repair install to
get required drivers installed.

 

[kakii]

So you had to experience this?? did someone force it on you??

Yes, my Asus mainboard ;-)

OK, I experienced.

 

[kakii]

I prefer to equip the windows installation with all sata drivers
probably needed in the future, in a case of m-board damage.

As I understand that, slipstreaming applies to creation of
recovery or installation CD.
Slipstreaming to installation CD is not helpful because I had
to repeat this process as often as disk backup images are created
(in my situation it would mean once a week) - not acceptable effort.

Slipstreaming to recovery CD like BartPE or similar.
How easy is the migration process to new mainboard if
m-board used previously is damaged and a new one has different sata
controller and when driver for new sata-controller are placed on a such
recovery CD ?

and include making an image or your install, or clone it. therefore
when replacing major hardware ie motherboard, all that should be
necessary is a repair install to get required drivers installed.

What exactly do you mean here ?