legacy OS ?

[Paul Heymans]

Hi,

I see in the P4P800's user's manual, about Serial ATA connectors: "In legacy
operating system (Win 98, WinME, WinNT, DOS) environment, using SATA will
desable one of the IDE channels from ICH5R south bridge chipset."

What means "legacy OS" ? Does it mean that working on WinXP, I'm not
concerned?

Thanks in advance for your help...

Paul Heymans paul.heymans<nospam>@triangle7.com

 

[billh]

Hi,

I see in the P4P800's user's manual, about Serial ATA connectors: "In legacy
operating system (Win 98, WinME, WinNT, DOS) environment, using SATA will
desable one of the IDE channels from ICH5R south bridge chipset."

What means "legacy OS" ? Does it mean that working on WinXP, I'm not
concerned?

Thanks in advance for your help...

Paul Heymans paul.heymans<nospam>@triangle7.com

Legacy in the computer world means obsolete by modern standards. You will
see that your board has some things that are made to operate specifically
with Win XP or Win2000 and are unavailable if an older OS like the ones you
list above are used. If you are running XP then you have all the features.
Billh