SATA and an Intel D865PERL board.

[milfordnhhome]

I installed this board a few years back and have always used SCSI
drives as I had collected quite a few over the years. Unfortunately,
they are all 9 and 18 Gb drives and I have grown tired of juggling
disk space.

So, I want to take my two primary drives, C: and F:, both 18Gb and
ghost them over to 1 250Gb 3Gb SATA drive with 2 partitions. I know
that the MB has SATA connectors on it, but I don't find them in device
manager or via Belarc Advisor. I haven't gone into the BIOS yet, they
might be disabled. Anyway, assuming that is the case and I do see
them in the OS (XP Pro), will I need drivers to access them? What
will I need in Ghost (V 7, the floppy boot one) in order to see the
drive? I know for PATA drives I needed the ATAPI drivers to see them,
is there a corollary for the SATA drives? Do I need to install
windows drivers in order for it to boot if in fact I am successful
with the Ghost? Finally, is anybody familiar with this board and how
can I tell if it is one that is RAID capable?

-Jim

 

[JAD]

I installed this board a few years back and have always used SCSI
drives as I had collected quite a few over the years. Unfortunately,
they are all 9 and 18 Gb drives and I have grown tired of juggling
disk space.

So, I want to take my two primary drives, C: and F:, both 18Gb and
ghost them over to 1 250Gb 3Gb SATA drive with 2 partitions. I know
that the MB has SATA connectors on it, but I don't find them in device
manager or via Belarc Advisor. I haven't gone into the BIOS yet, they
might be disabled. Anyway, assuming that is the case and I do see
them in the OS (XP Pro), will I need drivers to access them? What
will I need in Ghost (V 7, the floppy boot one) in order to see the
drive? I know for PATA drives I needed the ATAPI drivers to see them,
is there a corollary for the SATA drives? Do I need to install
windows drivers in order for it to boot if in fact I am successful
with the Ghost? Finally, is anybody familiar with this board and how
can I tell if it is one that is RAID capable?

-Jim

The Sata drivers were most likely not installed when you installed XP(cause you didn't
need them)
If you have XP SP2 there should be no problems seeing the drive when you are ready.
Ghosting partitions is precarious, hope it works out for you.

 

[jtpryan]

The Sata drivers were most likely not installed when you installed XP(cause you didn't
need them)
If you have XP SP2 there should be no problems seeing the drive when you are ready.
Ghosting partitions is precarious, hope it works out for you.- Hide quoted text -

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Thank you. Can you expand on ghosting partions? I have done many a
ghost to image and ghost disk to disk, but never tried ghosting a disk
to a partion on another physical disk. What problems might I
encounter. Also, will ghost 7 recognize an attached SATA drive?

-Jim

 

[Trimble Bracegirdle]

It may be that older motherboard uses it SATA drive connections to
map them to & through an IDE (PATA) controller.
They then are detected & show by the BIOS as another IDE channel.
Have a good look around the BIOS settings to see what they offer. Might even
read the M.Board Manual (shock!) & Goggle its name.

Do I understand correctly that this Hard Disk reorganizing is all on the
same
one computer ? What O/S ?
That is when the SATA drive is installed you will see in Exporer (or
whatever)
the 2 old & one new drive from where you currently have the O/S
running..
Can not you just do straight 'ordinary' file copy from old & to the new
drive ?
Or if you have XP then Windows built in Backup utility.

Have you considered & decided which File system your new drive will use ??
I guess it will Be NTFS Windows XP etc..?
Do you know that motherboard will take & detect a 250Gig drive ??
Might need BIOS update .
Plug it in & see what happens .
Mouse
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[frodo]

using the bios, you want to put the ich5 chip into "Enhanced Mode". This
turns on the chips advanced features and maps the SATA 1+2 channels into
the space as IDE 3+4. This is the mode that runs the channels on their
dedicated interface rather than thru the PCI interface.

 

[Compfix]

I installed this board a few years back and have always used SCSI
drives as I had collected quite a few over the years. Unfortunately,
they are all 9 and 18 Gb drives and I have grown tired of juggling
disk space.

So, I want to take my two primary drives, C: and F:, both 18Gb and
ghost them over to 1 250Gb 3Gb SATA drive with 2 partitions. I know
that the MB has SATA connectors on it, but I don't find them in device
manager or via Belarc Advisor. I haven't gone into the BIOS yet, they
might be disabled. Anyway, assuming that is the case and I do see
them in the OS (XP Pro), will I need drivers to access them? What
will I need in Ghost (V 7, the floppy boot one) in order to see the
drive? I know for PATA drives I needed the ATAPI drivers to see them,
is there a corollary for the SATA drives? Do I need to install
windows drivers in order for it to boot if in fact I am successful
with the Ghost? Finally, is anybody familiar with this board and how
can I tell if it is one that is RAID capable?

-Jim

If you have not got the driver disk that came with the board, go to the
Intel website where you can download the SATA drivers. AIUI you have to
load the driver before actually installing XP - that is - as it is loading
the files to install there is an option to load drivers as part of the
windows install process.

Hope this helps
Bob

PS spellchecking SATA = SATAN - appropriate