SATA drive recognized on install w/o driver

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Jan Alter

Last week I built a box on a Biostar mb with an Athlon 64 cpu. I installed
with Win XP Prof w /SP2. I used a Western Digital 250 Gb SATA drive and was
amazed to see the drive immediately recognized by Windows without having to
install a SATA driver that I've done previously. Are mb makers now placing
the driver in the bios for recognition by Windows or is Windows with SP2
placing a driver in the software that gets the drive recognized, or is this
event due to something else (ie leading a good life)?

Thanks,
 
Last week I built a box on a Biostar mb with an Athlon 64 cpu. I installed
with Win XP Prof w /SP2. I used a Western Digital 250 Gb SATA drive and was
amazed to see the drive immediately recognized by Windows without having to
install a SATA driver that I've done previously. Are mb makers now placing
the driver in the bios for recognition by Windows or is Windows with SP2
placing a driver in the software that gets the drive recognized, or is this
event due to something else (ie leading a good life)?
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Some motherboards set the SATA channels up as a psuedo IDE/SCSI when
not running in RAID configuration.
 
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